… and all the while … he’s talking about parentheses, about how a sentence doesn’t really come to life until encounters a parenthesis (something that changes the trajectory of the sentence (creating a meaning that she understands (as does he, the one who’s talking (without focusing) on and on) partly because what he’s talking about is how he’s talking) without altering its fundamental progress) which gives it a tension and a complexity that more resembles life, or if not life, music.