If you find the text font to be too small or large you can adjust it to your own preference by doing the following ...
IE Users
Click on "View" in your upper taskbar.
Click on "Text Size".
Choose one of the options listed (ranging from smaller to larger) that looks best to you.
Netscape Users
Click on "View" in your upper task bar.
Click on "Text Zoom".
Choose one of the options listed (ranging from smaller to larger) that looks best to you.
Opera Users
Hold the control button down on the keyboard.
Roll the mouse wheel up or down to adjust your preferred text size.
To move down through the text you can use your mouse, the down arrow key, or your spacebar.
To "turn" a page, select BACK or FORWARD from the links displayed at the top and bottom of each page. Introductory pages that contain only a small amount of text do not have link options at the bottom of the page.
I have recently uploaded most of the songs that played a role in the creation of this story/experience. In order to protect the artists' copyright and prevent the potential of downloading, the music player is invisible. This means that the music will play automatically in your chosen default music player. Dial-up users may find that the music "skips" -- if you allow the song to load completely and then play it through, that might do the trick. Most of the songs are cached in the pages preceding the actual playing so as to eliminate additional loading times. If you don't wish to hear the musical selection, simply turn the volume down on your speakers or headphones. Either way, the music will end when you "turn" the page.
The TABLE OF CONTENTS will display a change in color for the pages that have been read. I recommend you use the links to turn each page during your reading session, but return to the contents page before you begin a new reading session so you can accurately determine where you left off.
This story requires a minimum time commitment of three to four hours. Most readers seem to move through the story in two to four sessions, although you are welcome to take your time with it. This was a story that was written over the space of several weeks – there's nothing wrong with taking that long to read it. The nuance of flavor seems to improve with slow digestion and some pages are packed with intensity. Feel free to come back and revisit them.
It is highly recommended that you read the story in the manner in which it was written. Please note, in the beginning it does tend to "jump around" a fair bit -- understand, what you are seeing are "fragments" and "pieces of the puzzle" -- the story doesn't maintain that tone throughout. Nonetheless, if you are bored with the story it's probably better to leave it than to leap ahead hoping to understand the ending without having understood the beginning or middle. Likewise, those readers who skip around as if they were sampling from a buffet will likely exit the story without understanding the process that holds it all together.
That said, those who wish to continue can do so here ...
