"Split [. . .] Peas"

Reading is temporal: pages are turned, sentences are traced and stories are unfolded in time. Narrative itself, according to Paul Ricœur, is essentially a configuration of time; it both reflects and shapes temporal experience. ¹ And serialization in its turn also implies a particular relationship to time, as critics have recently argued. ² Until now, this relationship has mainly been explored by examining narrative, and hence linear, texts. But time is also “made” in texts that are not narratives; as Stuart Sherman has shown, the emergence of non-narrative forms such as newspapers and diaries can be understood as textual responses to new temporal experiences. ³ What, then, does time made out of print look like?