A black and white cat appears several times throughout the text, each time on a different page. Readers who pay close attention will soon spot the patterns. Each of these arrangements of text has a destabilizing effect on the other. When converted into a speech or a picture, a blank page on a newspaper sometimes does more than just that: it shapes the reader’s mind and, as a consequence, his behavior. A blank page will interest a person who reads only things he agrees with, or who agrees with other things; a distorted page will interest someone who reads only places he likes, or who is indifferent to reminders of the boats he used to booze around, the ones he didn’t fancy very much, the ones that went on forever.