There are explicit performatives; a verb used in a certain way makes explicit the action being performed: "I bet that there is a dangerous animal there," "I guarantee that there is a dangerous animal there," "I warn you that there is a dangerous animal there".
"It's as if the viewer is watching the action being performed".
All told, this talky opera is a succession of monumental gestures: a listener was tempted to envision the action being performed in slow motion by eyeless bronze or marble statues.
The basic misconception stems from the notion that the screen itself is more important than the action being performed.
It is often claimed that point-light displays provide sufficient information to easily recognize properties of the actor and action being performed.
This is done by achieving what is known as "the threefold purity," meaning that the bodhisattva does not regard either herself, the action being performed, or the object of that action as being a real, objectively existing thing.
Alternatively, all of the actions in a sequence could be prepared in parallel, with an inbuilt order of priority and a winner-take-all competition leading to one action being performed at a time and in the right order.
