A student finds a book that reads itself aloud. When she closes her eyes to escape, the words etch themselves onto her eyelids. She asks the sage, “How do I unsee what sees me?”
The sage hands her a mirror. In its reflection, the book burns. The student writes her name in the ashes. The sage laughs: “Who lit the match?”
If the reader becomes the page, who turns the page?
Linguistic Ruins 