Chapter 14. Spreading
14.1. A New Job
We open with a shot of a fishing boat where a father and son work on tempting the fish with seductive offers of worms and minnows.
| Father: | It makes me happy to have my son come home from college and stay with us. |
| Son: | Ah, quit it. |
| Father: | No. Say something intelligent. I want to see what I got for my money. |
| Son: | Quit it. |
| Father: | No. Come on. |
| Son: | The essential language of a text is confusion, distraction, misappropriation, and disguise. Only by deconstructing the textual signifiers, assessing and reassessing the semiotic signposts, and then reconstructing a coherent yet divergent vision can we truly begin to apprehend and perhaps even comprehend the limits of our literary media. |
The son reels in his line ...
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