Metapictures, hypertext and circular thinking

When I think of metapictures I think of russian dolls.  A picture within a picture within a picture.  The same can be said for hypertext--just in a different way.

According to Landow, "Hypertext...provides an infinitely recenterable system whose provisional point of focus...that is composed of bodies of linked texts that have no primary axis of organization" (36).  His "recenterable system" depends upon the lexias of the hypertext.  The lexias create the difference between russian dolls and hypertext.  "Lexias work much in the manner of types...points in space that contain all other points, because from the vantage point each provides one can see everything else" (37).

I feel like metapicture russian dolls are "points in space" within "points in space," then lexias and hypertext are russian dolls scattered around a table--all at once.