texts that are meant for ... something.
A friend once told me that some relationships are novels, some are short stories, and others are poems. The length of a relationship doesn't determine how meaningful it is. A poem can blow your mind in a few short lines — that's what makes it meaningful.
“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”
source: Barry H. Gillespie
“As I tell our people constantly: we’ve all learned to answer email on Sundays, but none of us has learned to go to the movies on Monday afternoon.”
— Ricardo Semler, Maverick!
The process as we move our eyes from word to word is corrective and revisionary rather than progressive. Each new word revises the complex picture we had before.