truly effective

"A truly effective creative written work not only exhibits a significant hospitality to nonlinearity, but also some meaningful context for the decay or reduction that produces local or momentary sequences."

As this is the NYU Press Prize for Hyperfiction, one might expect "hyperfiction" or "hypertext" to appear where "creative written work" now stands. The use of the longer and general phrase must be deliberate, but can it mean what it says?

Does the Book of Ruth exhibit a meaningful context for decay? Does Hamlet, or Great Expectations, or The Maltese Falcon? All could be argued to show significant hospitality to nonlinearity, but can we really find in them "reduction that produces local or momentary sequences"?