just the visual training, of which I have none. But I am the same way about the look of the thing. It is probably why I preview so obsessively, to compare the text in the box vs. the way it will appear after "Submit", and the different qualities of each.

It may have something to do with the way I habitually begin my opening sentence in the subject line and continue it in the comment body, an extended pause

inserted in an unlikely place for no apparent reason except, perhaps, to add a semblance of suspense. It is a horribly hackneyed trick.

Squinting at your own article above, I notice that the paragraph is not the only unit that stands out. On a larger scale than that there are the sections, each with its own bold header. And on the smallest scale, the single-sentence paragraph, a miniature billboard bearing a simple slogan. You can read these short paragraphs scattered through the prose like a Burma Shave campaign:

I'd like to try something a little unorthodox here.

[I]t's as literal as words on paper.

Listen, and I'll explain how it works.

I have no rules for you, but I do have clues.

In writing, the negative space is the paper itself.

...Breathing and drama expressed via the paper between the typographical marks.

Squinting doesn't lie.

My apologies if this seems like a heartlessly analytical way to read your piece.

--ich sage nicht, was ich will, sondern was die Sprache will--
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