You’ve made something out of nothing! I thought this was a little patronizing at the start (i.e. “the words, in turn, appear to be forming a sentence”) but then I warmed up to it. I like how you narrated the readers experience. I ultimately found your ficly here to be unique and well thought out. 5 pencils for the concept alone. Bravo :)

You got right into my BRAIN! Reading is pretty weird if you think about it isn’t it?

Kind of meta…but not in a bad way, if there is a good and bad way to be meta. Nicely done.

I thank each of you for your comments and am grateful for your read.

I like this.
You want to be careful of using words that have multiple meanings, especially if the alternate meanings still makes sense.
BEFORE:
She sat before a judge.
She sat in front of a judge on a bus.
She entered the court before the judge sat down.
Basically, before can relate to two opposite positions, inferior and superior.
The same with characters too. Letters? Or a long line of possible nouns, clowns? Putting the two together can be a bit confusing:
You recognize the cheerleaders in front of you (spectator) and the arrangement of them as a formation of words.
You recognize the cheerleaders going before you (competition) and the arrangement of them as a formation of words.
You recognize the (your fellow squad) cheerleaders in front of you and the arrangement of them as a formation of words.
Try this: You see the tiny black lines and curves start to arrange and formulate words.

Or:

You watch as tiny black lines and curves start to arrange and formulate words.

hahaha, I agree with the first two, you’ve made something from nothing, and narrated a brain. ‘Characters’ can mean letters or people, is what 32 means, I get it. That sentence requires you to INFER from the next two that the characters in question are letters, not people. Unless you want your letters to be personified. :) Inference is a valuable tool for people to learn.

Quite excellent for a story that is all sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Once again, I thank each of you for your comments and am grateful for your read.

Really interesting process to think about and one that I don’t give a great deal of attention to. Thanks for making me think.

Great! Keep on writing