The reader has the choice to read the whole scripton or only parts of it before following a link. As a consequence, scriptons are not necessarily identical to what readers actually read, but what an ideal reader would read by strictly following the linear structure of the textual output.

He stood mannequinlike, staring out the window.

At the site of Sampul (or Shanpula), near the southwestern Tarim Basin oasis of Luopu, a Saka grave has yielded a piece of woven woolen cloth [Fig. 2] that shows Hellenistic and Persian inspiration in the depictions of a centaur and a lance-bearing warrior (Xinjiang weiwu'er 2001).

[…] she was not looking at the daylit, sunny world which she so wanted to see.