1.
For someone to button a single finis on the end—or again, a scripted length which pulls from the paper, and needs must be fastened at its far tip—staple that tail to the page, or force with a needle, for forcing-down, for fastening at a pluck—the silver tip will move to extrude watery ink.
2.
A certain framed space must be colored but cannot be filled to lip with continuous fluids; it must be brimmed with each-machined corpuscles, porous without and jeweled within (again, some stolid bench-sitter with tweezers is needful).
...No, no, I’m wrong—a corpuscle, I’m told, is always woven, and as such has one concrete beginning and one end—woven books, of one tortured thread, must therefore suffice to sate a mind at a literary incline.
-2004
