The text and the lyric: the static and the fluid tags: sieves

When we write and when what we write is read there is a subtle shift. When the reading happens, what we have written comes across as a stated truth. Texts, just by the means of ink on paper or pixels on screen, have a ring of the absolute about them. The hooks that we have in our speech, the hooks that allow the questions to seem as if they are not complete without at least a tentative response, appear via sound through our reading of the question. The process that operates is something like…