And if you, by any chance, commit a
crime, you will go to jail.
A crime? What crime are you writing about?
Well, let's write, you will twist a word. Or you will untwist a
twisted word. A word twisted on purpose, of course. (However
don't expect a reward for untwisting a word twisted
accidentally.) Or you will straighten up a winding phrase. Or
make a short cut . . . . . . . So, generally writing, you will
be punished for any lack of awareness, attention or
concentration. And for laziness and carelessness and sloppiness
as well – in reading, of course . . . . . . . You will be
imprisoned in a text. You will be tortured by a tortuous text.
You will be put into the dungeon of a multi-storey story. You
will be kept in a labyrinth of letters. You will have to read
and read and read. To get out of this labyrinth you will have to
read. You will have to read out your way to freedom. But the
more you will read the more the text will suck you in. You will
merge instead of emerge. The text will fill more and more the
space inside and outside you. You will be entirely absorbed by
the text and you will not want to get out of it. You will go
deeper and deeper and you will be interested only in going
deeper and deeper . . . . . . Well, but this won't be a
good punishment. In fact this won't be a punishment at all.
Reaching the state of euphoria and reading with you face burning
with desire and enthusiasm, is this a punishment? You won't even
care of freedom, because staying in and within this text you
will feel extremely free since the limitations of your body will
not torment you any more, you will forget about your body
immersing in reading . . . . . Sod it! It should be hell, not
heaven. . . . . . . . So, the text will have to be absolutely
boring and stupid and disgusting and..... Reading it you will be
dreaming of finishing and finishing it will be like chasing the
horizon line. Reading it will make your mind thirsty – your
thoughts will get dry and will hurt your mind like rigid leaves
of a thistle . . . . .
Anyway . . . . .
Anyway, isn't it both the crime and punishment that you are
here? That we are here? So, what crime have I committed? have I
been committing all the time?