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Watching “Dakota,” in The New and Improved Young-Haw Chang Heavy Industries, was a completely strange and random for me.  I did not know what to expect when I clicked the link and was abruptly awakened after the first drum beat and flashing word.

At first, I tried to read everything that popped up on the screen.  After much reading and hard work, just trying to keep up became impossible.  That is when it became a game to me.  I read what I could and enjoyed the rest.  When, at first, I was trying to connect ideas and thoughts within the statements, now I could just enjoy what I caught and if I could make sense of it, well, that just enhanced my experience.  If I could not, then oh well, nothing was lost—I’ll just catch it next time I see the video.

The words come at you strongly.  They are black, clear text on a white screen.  The writing is literally in black and white, but the meaning is not that simple.  This is what literature, as a whole, is.  The actual art is the black and white writing on the page, yet the meaning is not given or presented as such.

I struggled through Lot 49 because I could not find that black and white meaning, but I have learned that the meaning is most of the times not that identifiable.  And sometimes the meaning and purpose is simply enjoyment.  The video was definitely different and I wonder if this is what literature will eventually become.  Will literature evolve from black and white texts on a page to images on a screen?