1/ "Something is making you read each one of these words, but once you get to the end of this sentence you will get a momentary relief. A mild stress or desire pulls you along word by word as you read, until you stop, ever so briefly at a comma or a full stop." - ThreadSky

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eam0.bsky.social • 13 hours ago

1/ "Something is making you read each one of these words, but once you get to the end of this sentence you will get a momentary relief. A mild stress or desire pulls you along word by word as you read, until you stop, ever so briefly at a comma or a full stop."

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eam0.bsky.social•13 hours ago

2/ "Once we reach these waymarks of punctuation, there is a tiny cessation of desire. We experience it as a collapse of the subject-object distinction. In this way, we, the reader as subject, are completely absorbed by each word in a string of successive objects."

eam0.bsky.social•13 hours ago

3/ "We follow the line of words as a dog does a hare. The hare may be a living creature, or it may be a machine on a track. All that matters is that the lure is convincing, as once it is, we will run."

eam0.bsky.social•13 hours ago

4/ "It does not matter who or what wrote these words. When we read, we cannot precisely remember what happened a few lines ago, and we have no idea what will happen in the lines ahead, but we continue nonetheless, as long as we feel progress is being made."

eam0.bsky.social•13 hours ago

5/ "If the words keep stringing together in a plausible fashion, we will follow. Nothing really needs to be said. In fact, nothing is. I am not telling you anything right now that you do not already know, nor giving you anything that you do not already possess."

eam0.bsky.social•13 hours ago

6/ "The argument of this paragraph, by implication, is that language has some quality of proliferation. We become caught up in a subject-object chase, punctuated now and then by almost imperceptible intermittent cessations."

eam0.bsky.social•13 hours ago

7/ "But further to this, there is sometimes a strange sense we can get, of object-subject instead of subject-object. That is, sometimes it would seem that we are not reading the words, but they are reading us."

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