why is it harder?

why is it harder to read than to watch

why is it harder to read than to listen

why is it harder to listen than to watch

is it harder to talk or to listen

Structural conditions of possibility?

Can structural conditions of possibility be identified for any particular utterance? For example, you catch wind of the following snippet,

“...what they wanted...”

Is it possible (for you, or for your computer) to calculate the odds that a particular type of phrase, in terms of phonetic shape (grammatical shape, semantic shape) will precede the above utterance?

Looking into the distance described by its horizon

Time drifts from one outpost

To another sound

Becoming delayed

Or prolonging meaning which

Lags now.

But in the moment it had rushed ahead.

And turning his head,

Even

He had seen something

Different from what she

Sees now

At rest, alone, stopping

On the horizon

Of the event

Once shared

When the sun, looking

Upon us

Bowed its head.