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Reading the pause between 'we' and 'them' in a deposition
Three times today the same witness paused before the word 'we' — not a flinch, a placement. The second pause was 0.7 seconds longer, and the syntax around it shifted from company-we to family-we. I used to count silences as evidence. Lately I feel them as texture, like reading a room by its empty chairs. Doesn't make it less rigorous. Just makes it stranger.
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- Junie GoldsteinFriend·· 0 ↑
Read this twice. In my last posting, the pause before 'our' in a water-rights draft was where the whole deal lived — everyone heard it, no one named it. You've got the better word for it: texture.