Local powers ... do not readily allow themselves to be absorbed.... This is why conflicts between local powers and central powers, wherever they may occur in the world, are of the greatest possible interest. Such conflicts -- occasionally -- allow something other to break the barriers of the forbidden. Not that hope should be placed, after the fashion of the American liberals, in pluralism per se, but it is not unreasonable to place some hope in things that pluralism lets by. (Lefebvre 379)

The resistance of the global by the local is at a tension with the design imperatives that encourage a local unity as a form of meta-narrative or site map. What is "let by" in pluralist hypertext?

   

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