A FALSE CHAPTER
In keeping with the inherent slippage in this topic – trying to capture the uncapturable, this essay is also ‘structured’ as a fluid. Taking inspiration from William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch (the title of which emerges from a misspoken line of poetry – a detail which will emerge as relevant in due [or prior] course). [22] The following and preceding sequences of information are not chaptered, and can be /have been read in any order. The emphasis becomes no longer on the precise and pinned down sequence of paragraphs, words, or sentences but rather on that very slippery thing that happens between them in the reader’s experience. As such, the paper also opens up to misreadings, committing itself fully to the multiple possibilities and experiences that any text might have on an audience. As a result, the paper approaches its topic from the periphery – much like the behavior of the surface and the impossible measure that escapes capture, the paper intends to explain by doing, behaving like that very surface, rather than pretending to ‘precisely’ describe it. And so, images of draft versions – traces of the paper in various states of its formation are left visible. As a result, the sentences that are struck out are somehow both there and not there; they exist in the final version only to indicate their removal, as well as to reveal that they once were.
