a brief long note on lines

1.  Something happens in between the panels of a comic book.
      
2.  (was it Scott McCloud who said?)

3.   What happens in this negative space? 

4.  The interstice, no matter how brief, saying without saying 

5.  Something has been omitted in favor for another

6.  Or.  It is all a matter of "seeing".

7.  Who sees?  

8.  Who chooses what to see?

9.  Drop a panel, and the whole story changes.

10.  A matter of version/s, 

11.  Of course:

12.  What is not told is as much as what is told

13.  Perhaps even more.

14.  (Louise Glück said:)

15.  It is the remnant, the incomplete

16.  That calls the power of the Whole.

17.  How I am drawn to poetry because of this:

18.  Words are

19.  A mere thin trace of a thought.

20.  A verse line is like 

21.  A visual line

21.  And the "line" of space in the middle of a panel

22.  All of them operating in 

23.  The context

23.  Of silence

24.  Speaking.