This last moment before her lips touch the cigarette may take a week. It’s hard to maintain that excitement for a week. It’s hard to maintain that excitement for half an hour. Further complicating my satisfaction, it seems they may both be pausing here to savor the game, but at 1/24th of a second, pauses cease to exist, and what was punctuation becomes an impenetrable 2000-page tome of experimental fiction.⠀