Notice they are shadowless?

I am, it must be said, dead. Not yet the deep horizontal line, but certainly a horizontal line that walks; that is indeed vertical, but lacks the all important shadow, which all living vertical lines have. And not just have – it is, as is commonly said, necessary proof of being a vertical line. Of being alive. Some say, vertical lines without their shadow are only alive as the deep horizontal line. And as such, they are not to be trusted: even if you wanted to, you could not trust them, for they are without end, untrustable. But I could not say: I am dead.

Then how do you write, I hear you say. How does one that is dead make any claim; make any statement at all? Yes. A problem. Until you note that the mark of the dead; the mark of one who has finally become a deep horizontal line, is writing: see all these lines; see how horizontal they all are, in the orientation of the deep horizontal - the final, deep horizontal. Notice they are shadowless?