dotlit: The Bus

The Online Journal
of Creative Writing

Edited by Donna Lee Brien (general), Philip Neilsen (poetry), and Axel Bruns (hypermedia and Webmaster)

ISSN 1444-2817

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	1 Aug. 2001	'The Bus' by Fred Biggar Kerri Ullrich


	The Bus, Fred Biggar (hypertext) http://emedia.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/zine/biggar/

	A good rain knows its season, Comes forth in spring, Follows the wind, steals into the night; Glossing nature, delicate without a sound... from A Spring Night Rejoicing in Rain by Du Fu		1

	The ancient art of Calligraphy uses Chinese characters as the vehicle of its expression. A poem such as Du Fu's A Spring Night Rejoicing in Rain conveys a grace that is both lexical and aesthetic when it is understood in Chinese. In a similar way Fred Biggar has used typographical elements in The Bus to create a hypertextual landscape that connects content and form in a whimsical exploration of the milieu of China. The Bus can be found in an on-line publication called Zine which is part of the State Library of Victoria's Experimedia site. Cyberpoet Kominos developed the Web site in 1999 to display a selection of work of Victorian poets.		2

	Enter The Bus via a front page photo and you are:		3

	Welcome aboard limber patrons; The Bus is pulling out, main lane, skipping round ponderous concrete asteroids: awaiting scientific explanation. Marco Polo is aboard, his fare payed up, a bag of licorice to the conductor.		4