"...we do not read everything with the same intensity of reading; a rhythm is established, casual, unconcerned with the integrity of the text; our very avidity for knowledge impels us to skim or to skip certain passages (anticipated as "boring") in order to get more quickly to the warmer parts of the anecedote: we boldly skip (no one is watching) descriptions, explanations, analyses, conversations...it is the very rhythm of what is read and what is not read that creates the pleasure..."

Barthes