AXON allows me to create, through air photos or maps, or species photos, for instance, a visual representation of a set of ecosystems which I can use as a desktop or launch pad so to speak. It allows me to launch any file [ text, axon, LM, Skwyrul, graphics, audio, you name it ] that my computer controls. THE LITERARY MACHINE is the only true Brain in my data stream in that ALL inputs to the project wherever they are from, and whatever scale of significance they may have, are easily and creatively entered, and just as creatively assembled again in new ways. My own brain is allowed to do its processing work in its moment without the constraints of hierarchy and with full confidence that the data is not being lost in obscurity (I think that was the hardest part to get used to). Exploring the true complexity of the linkages between objects isn't marred by any necessity to maintain fiats of order external to my own vision of the day, yet the program faithfully returns my input and allows the vision of a future day to add ammend or even delete yesterdays vision Just like a brain (though I always distrust the urge to delete in my brain, it can feel like a running away from something or other). SKWYRULPRO is in dramatic contrast with LM in its intensely hierarchical structure, which I find a necessary evil if I wish to approach the entire eighty three root elements of ecosystem in one gestalt, which I often do. —D.S.