Criticism and commentary on the craft, history, and mechanics of reading.
The device is named for a literal cliff, in a literal novel, and the reason it still works has less to do with suspense than with how memory itself behaves.
Two hundred and thirty words a minute is an average, not a diagnosis. Your actual pace changes by the page, the paragraph, and the sentence — and a platform that assumes otherwise is just guessing.
Serialized fiction is not a compromise made for slower internet connections. It is one of the oldest and most disciplined shapes a novel can take.
