In The Expanse, the ships don’t hold themselves together.
Pressure does.
Everything is engineered for vacuum, but designed for life under load.
Books work the same way.
You don’t open a book.
You mount it.
And like any archive, the structure matters more than the surface.
You haven’t read it yet.
But you’ve been thinking about reading it for months.
That book has already done its job.
It’s running in the background.
You don’t annotate because you understand.
You annotate because you’re trying not to forget.
It’s not a sign of mastery.
It’s a survival strategy.
