Light radiates from the screen and reaches your eyes. You recognize the characters before you and the arrangement of them as a formation of words. The words, in turn, appear to be forming a sentence.

As the realization of what you have done passes through your consciousness, you tell yourself: Wait a second. Have I been reading these words and sentences all along?

A pause for contemplation allows your eyes to move momentarily downward and to the left. The task of reading the written word begins once again. More and more alphabetical representations of thought appear as your eyes helplessly flow forward.

Another break – another shift – another awkward realization that you’ve just spent the last moment of your life reading, but learning absolutely nothing in the process. In fact, the last sentence you read (as is the one you are reading now) is a grand, grammatical farce.

Then, when all hope seems lost, you can’t take it any longer, and you think you’ve read much more than enough… it stops.