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This article offers an analysis of “Agrippa: A Book of the Dead” and considers it fully within the context of emerging literary trends.

“Agrippa” neatly bridges closed and open digital forms, and its fate is also instructive. The move from commerical diskette to endless replication on the internet might exemplify the view that information wants to be free, and that the Web instantiates the possibility of democratic access. Yet this move also destroys a central element of the initial form of “Agrippa”–a passingness that in the end can only be reintroduced by reverting to book form.