He reads swiftly, flying through the words but often not understanding them.
There, reading swiftly from handfuls of telegrams, he thrilled his audiences with play-by-play accounts of games he had never seen.
Is Shyamalan thumbing his nose at the studios' desire for instant back story, for characters who can be read as swiftly as the back page of a newspaper, or is he implying that everything about a person, even the most blameless of facts, can have the sticky tenacity of a secret?
"President Xi Jinping has set up a special unit to investigate corruption allegations against the retired leader Zhou Yongkang," read the swiftly deleted tweet, according to a screen grab on freeweibo.com, which is run by an anti-censorship site, greatfire.org.org
You're watching Lost live from the USA", read the caption on Sky1, swiftly followed by one that announced a "temporary fault".
"Coach Fan Bin has repeatedly insulted our team over the past three years by beating and verbally abusing us, and we can no longer bear his treatment," read the letter, which was swiftly leaked to the news media.
The major poems are swiftly, meticulously and deeply read.
Kennedy's opinions, too, could appear to mutate swiftly, and could be read in numerous ways.
This short, searing story demands to be read at one sitting, and then swiftly reread in the light of its final revelations.
