Before the rabbit hole

I'm very excited that this group was created, and yesterday I had a thought to become a part of a collaborative digital text.

My vision of the text is one that is simultaneously spontaneous and planned, to unite/dissolve the binary of textual construction and appeal to many styles. The goal of a text like this I believe would be akin to the goals of the Evolver community: conscious collaboration and individual transformation

Just as biomimicists design devices based on natural phenomena, I believe a good model for such a text would be a tree.

The text would begin as a seed.
A single word
a single thought
Like the big bang.

The text germinates, the individual inspirations of collaborators are the nutrients that feed its growth, and feed its emergent meta-inspiration. Each contribution or 'node' of the tree can be of any nature, drawing from the inpiration of it's writer's Position, and from the inpiration of the text itself.

The text grows its foundation, and emerges from the soil to bask in the sunlight. It's trunk and roots grow, and it branches as one node splits from another, and another. Some collaborators may wish to branch from certain nodes, some in the roots, some in the branches, depending on what they feel is correct. As the text draws energy (inspiration) from its own hyperspace (the Sun) and psychomythical mentality (the Soil), the trunk of the work expands.

Inevitably, such a text will stagnate, dissolve, and die. But its cosmic footprint in Time remains. Perhaps a bird will nest in future texts, and so we may construct an ecosystem of texts, each endowed with their own particular niche in a fictional space of textuality.