Setting Is the Field

The slot writers skip is the slot readers need.

I learned this writing about scripture and trauma research, separately, before I noticed it was one mechanism. The verse in isolation is vapor. Who wrote it, who first heard it, what was happening that month in that town — that is where the meaning locks in. A child reading blessed are the poor without the cultural setting hears charity language. With the setting, it is a sentence said to people who knew exactly which Roman tax collector lived around the corner and how much he took yesterday. The setting is the field the verse has to sit inside before the claim is allowed to land.