this, in combination with "How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read" except there is no text to even be read and Asada Akira's suggestion that the vicinity to a book [sleeping with the book under the pillow] can completely supersede its reading

urbanomic's strategy of forthcomingness it's the perfect phishing. the bait produces readings that does not need any text. the tradition is secret and long. from pseudo-dyonisus [aphairesis] to negarestani [nupta cadavera] secret texts as stillborn baits to that disturbing outside

The Renaissance idea of the theatre of memory is an example of that: a tension between pure vision, like Greek epopteia, and knowledge. It's not just about knowing what exists, but entering a virtual space for language, akin to tragedy: the fate of knowing and being transformed by that knowledge.