Oof. In a film, gripping, dramatic music would accompany the heroine’s discovery of that text. We’d see her lips moving softly as she reads; her face would express first puzzlement, then incredulity, and at last amazement. She would look up at the hero, stammering something like: But then … this means? Reverse shot of him, calm, intense: Right. I’m making fun just a little here and it’s true, there is something comical in the contrast between that indigestible prose and the joy it unleashed, but one could make fun this way of almost any human endeavor in which one is not personally involved,
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