... graphs out of what seemed to me to be naturally one, because I have been told that most readers like short paragraphs. This paragraph, for instance, is probably too long. If I had wanted to ... thought—until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language. So long as words, sentences, and paragraphs are opaque and unanalyzed, they are a barrier to, rather than a medium of, communication. You ... as a reader. As a matter of fact, the reader has the last word. The author has had his say, and then it is the reader's turn. The conversation between a book and its reader would appear...