When I wrote in these pages about Residua soon after the 1996 edition appeared in print, it struck me as a quintessential book, the kind of book one wished one had been writing oneself since adulthood, if not earlier, but the 2000 edition evokes different sentiments. Now it is on the Internet. Type “www.residua.org,” press return, and presto, you are in a tangled world of writing that folds onto itself over and over again. Parenthetically, if you make a mistake and type “com” instead of “org,” you will get to a site about sustainable waste management, which delights the author of Residua, a book of sui generis sustainable waste management. Designed in London by ConnectWorks, the ostensible publisher, the website allows you not only to search through the gargantuan text, but also to interact with the author, and, through him, with other readers, as well as with yourself sometime in the future. Yes, now you are drawn in. Now you cannot escape behind the screen of feeble regrets.

From Dario Dandolo’s “Rewired,” De natura verbalis, Vol. XVIII, No. 4, Winter 2000, p. 787 (in Italian).