Stage

Stage

Of reflection instead of singular thought where, offstage, perhaps in the prompter's corner or the stage manager's box, cue is given and actors or voices take the stage and respond to cue —the pattern is similar to when the actors must respond to other actors' cues onstage —but the difference is that the first cue (or prompt) is more or less forgotten by actors or voices while in the act of responding —if or when actors interrupt the response and try to remember what prompted it, then reflection takes place and a dramatic monologue or soliloquy might ensue —and this all takes place multiple times in the brain, almost at the same time —readers' notes often reference how readers open a dialogue with the text, where narrator or author has embedded questions and answers in the text that will stimulate readers to respond in their minds as though they were in a conversation with the text —when the readers realize in the midst of all this, that they're in dialogue with the text, they might experience an epiphany that lifts them out of the text —and/or readers break the 'fourth wall' and enter a meta-text or a subtext or even mind wandering —suffice to say when all this occurs, it could be a mistake the text's creator has made that pauses a more fluid, median-level readers' experience —distraction like smoke, fog, explosion, siren, or bell that interrupts thoughts or actions can be thought of as either staged for the purpose of the text or script —which is so far all just being discovered page by page, moment by moment through readers or actors while responding on a surface level —or a genuine shock like the curtain coming down or swordplay goes wrong or actors fall off the stage into the orchestra pit —perhaps a strange thing happens like a Shakespeare chatbot that illuminates all of the above —because once readers or actors become accustomed to an author's style or voice, then the author's texts become as companions for the readers or actors who might go so far as to find other of the author's fans and form groups like book clubs —but next comes marginalia… 

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