If impossibility is what Reality forecloses, possibility is what it opens, one boundary seen from either side. Each foreclosure is inseparable from a capacity: not an added feature, but the same role under its positive description. What reading forecloses, reading also requires: the same three roles, seen now from the other side.

i. *Reading on from where you began.* The word you started from is behind, the word now facing you comes right after it, the words to come are not yet reached. That ordering runs forward. A before gives way to an after, and each word is reached only by leaving the one before it.

ii. *Reading toward a word you are not yet at.* The word you read from and the word you read toward keep their own places, here and there on the page, and the reading goes through only because the two are genuinely distinct places, not one place described twice. That apartness is an interval: a here and a there made two places rather than one.

iii. *Reading with the sense carried across.* You bear the sense across, from the word left behind to the word reached: each word's sense joins what is already held, none of it let go to make room for what comes next. That carrying is the link between where you leave and where you land: the interval crossed rather than merely measured.

And the second foreclosure mirrors too: once taken, a reading holds — the words read stay read, the sense not given back. The same capacity that carries you forward also leaves nothing along the way unread.

What Reality opens in this way has a definite modal standing too, the one [§1.2](<1.2 Modal Status.md>) names *possibility*.


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