Henry See, designer/author of the unpublished hypermedia classic, “Noise of Time,” (Banff, 1988; English text by Bruce Powe;; French text by Ghislaine Guertin); a hypertext first shown to me by a man named Michael Century (a name which seemed an omen then, and still does) at his hotel during the Hypertext 1989 meeting in Pittsburgh, after I told him I was working on a hypertext fiction (this one) (then) about Glenn Gould. There is also (in my mind at east) a pun (noel) on “Jose can you see?”, itself a psychic remnant of an old ethnic joke or perhaps a line from an animated short of my youth. Regarding shorts, of course, the name of this section itself puns upon Francois Girard’s (hypertextual) collection of films about Glenn Gould (and the name of a rifle bullet, the 22 short, which I remember from the marksman courses of my youth, another pun I suppose when you think on it, though I was a Boy Scout [no pun] then) which of course has several predecessors, including a French essay by Michel Schneider in the form of an aria and trente variations and the wonderful novel by Rick Powers which is also punned upon in this title and text.