Reading Bridges, Books, Toilets

It’s easy to differentiate between language and reality or actuality. We can say that a text is “just words,” but a bridge and a street and a mountain and a toilet are real.

The bridge, the street, the mountain and the toilet are as real and unreal as the text, and what meaning, or reality, they have comes from our reading of them. But we usually know that we are reading a text, and we usually don’t know that we are reading a bridge.