For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins

As previously discussed elsewhere, a model of
the process might go something like this:
[...]
The words – a word – for example, ‘GRISTLE’ (though sentencing,
paragraphing, type, kern, track, etc. is CRITICAL.
And those parenthetical inverted commas are a concession)
– seeps in through your bovine eyes. This much so familiar.
At this point, the word’s state is closest to gas, though of
course it is not gas. It is the gas of a Gas Giant – impossible
to comprehend, though apparently scientifically verifiable
(the science, blah blah,
eludes your slow wits).
Imagine GRISTLE
whistling in through
your pupils, tiny
jets of GRISTLE
rushing in through
your heavily
dilated pupils
– the pupils of
a HOP HEAD.
This gas is visible,
GRISTLE. There.
(At this point, a
section clarifying
the workings of
your eye: [...] The
human eye belongs
to a general group of
eyes found in nature
called CAMERA TYPE EYES. Instead of film (or a full-frame
digital sensor), the human eye focuses light onto a light
sensitive membrane called the RETINA (jabbing at it with
a thorny twig). Here’s how the human eye is put together
and how it works: The cornea is a transparent structure found
in the very front of the eye [my emphases] that helps to focus
incoming beams of light. Behind the cornea is a coloured,
ring-shaped membrane called the iris (think: nebula). The
iris has an adjustable circular opening called the pupil (think:
sphincter), which can expand or contract depending on
the amount of light beams, rays, whatever, penetrating the
eye. A clear fluid called the AQUEOUS HUMOUR fills the