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In all honesty, I struggled to understand exactly what Strickland was saying, let alone the point she was trying to make. From what I could understand, she was analyzing the flow of language: how it moves through the speaker and the listener-the different ways both individuals interact with particular words. The one thing I did find interesting toward the beginning of the article was her notion of “moving through me as I move”. In this sense, language appeared to be a metaphor for the Christian belief as to God’s relationship with the people he created; he shaped them, and then influences their lives by moving through them, and interacting with them in this sense. However, I became terribly lost as to her argument about the oscillation of images. I understand the difference between “looking at” and “looking through” something, but I fail to see how this relates to hypertexts. It seems to be common sense that two sets of images containing words, when layered on top of each other, won’t result in legible text, making it more difficult for someone to interact with it. Anything else she talks about for the rest of the article is pretty much nonsensical to me.