Though it avoids the overt violence that made her earlier work notorious, it remains an extreme text, dissolving character, narrative and theatrical artifice in its quest for absolute emotional expression.
But technology, especially cellphone and texting technology, dissolves obstacles.
In the spot, images of fire mutate momentarily into floating fragments of text before dissolving again into flames: "North Korea conducts nuclear test.
And even the supertitles are presented unusually, sometimes with lines of text seeming to dissolve as letters fly away from words.
The significance of a writer's background, his context, is that of a point of departure: art is an escape, a flight of speech to the printed page, where the reader's imagination is free to encounter the writer's; biography moves in the opposite direction, dissolving text back into conversation, returning the writer to his "household", reincarnating his family, bringing him back to earth.
Titles to poems lost their isolation (she converted them into first lines by bleeding them straight into the text) and the text itself dissolved into supplementary notes (some of her poems make little sense without them).
In the exchange between Gates and Lethem, both opine about the rapidly dissolving distinctions between "text and commentary, original and copy, private and public, book and computer" that challenge writers and readers alike.
Cyber Dust allows you to send a text message to another person that dissolves into the ether within 30 seconds.
This is certainly, as Shattuck says, to "hypertrophize," and to risk dissolving a relatively coherent text to the point that a number of critics now claim there simply is no definitive version of the "Search".
We obtained similar results by changing the culture volume, which then changed the dissolved oxygen levels (see text and Fig. S5 in the supplemental material).
