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This short hypertext is devided in two parts that author call: Truth and Lies. The motto of this hypertext intrgued me to read it : ” you will never truly understand a poerson until you understand her lies”. I wanted to understand why do Pryll say this,  so I immediately began to read this work of his.

I started clicking the word “Truth” and so the story began. In the first mini-part he starts convincing the reader that it´s better living in the world of lies, than in the one of truth, motiving this by saying that in the lie-world the things are just the way we want them to be. Then, Pryll starts talking about his girlfriend. He recognises that they lie to each other, although they live together for a year. In this part we identify a a space “footprint” – his apartment. Further, he tells us that in “some last summer” he went to Germany (wich is another space “fingerprint”) and how he and his girlfriend were mailing each other with love declarations, meanwhile they both had lovers. He says that she confessed to him that she had slept with that guy, but he caught her with another lie – she lied about the date when she have done it. Than he confesses to her that he also had a lover named Gabriella, with whom he had slept for three times. He liked that girl because she would listen to him, but didn´t give him any advices ever, wich he considered a good quality.

The author ends up this story by saying in conclusion that the characters can live together despite the both mistakes they both made over the summer; and also they moved together.

This is the first part of the story. When I finished reading it, I started clicking on “Lies”. He starts describing how did he met with his girlfriend a year ago. He says it was in a dance club (space “fingerprint) and gives us a small description of the manner in how he got interested by her. Than appears another girl – Gabriella and he feels that they would eventually get into intimate relationship with each other. After that, Pryll explains the reader that there are certain ways of encoding the lies. He says that it´s hard to say to someone that he or she is lyng, but that it´s much more easy to say it in a coded language. He tells us how he had found a letter from his girlfriend where he describes him how did she spent the summer, and also another letter adressed to Antoine (her lover) where she tells him all the lies he tells to Pryll to cover for him. He felt humiliated.  Than he starts talking about Gabriella and how did they ended up sleeping in the same bed. At last, he describes a scene where he wakes up in the morning in a room with a gray wall (space “fingerprint”) and he can´t figure out where he is, than hears a “humm” and thinks that he´s with the read-head girl (Gabriella), but he finds out that the one who “hummed” was a dark long-haired girl. I suppose that that woman is his girlfriend, because he didn´t make it quite clear whether is she or not. This is how ends up the second short story.

This hypertext left me with some questions. Because of it´s reduced volume, it can not leave the reader without the feeling that it needs to be continued and needs some supplement to make the text more complete and intelligible.