“As the sun lowers, a reflection forms on the sea. A dazzling point, composed of countless twinkling reflections from the horizon, washes up to the beach. Between the glimmers, the sea’s opaque blue creates a dark net. Backlit, the white boats turn black, losing both mass and size, as if consumed by the blinding reflections.

It is the time of day when the slow-moving Palomar goes for an evening swim.”^{[ 1 ]}

For a long time, the body has absorbed letters. It has seen them with its eyes, heard them with its ears, and touched them with its hands.

A body that has absorbed letters naturally begins to expel them. The letters go through a process of deconstruction and reassembly as they pass through the body, and are then absorbed by other bodies.

The body itself sometimes changes as a result of the letters passing through it. Such changes in the body could often be observed.

A moving body often served as evidence of having absorbed letters.

Document swimming is something anyone can attempt without much difficulty, but it does not lead to easy conclusions. Reading a document can be one method of document swimming, but the document itself continually eludes anyone trying to read it. The letters of a document continuously slide away, resembling something alive.

A renewed awareness of the movements that the body itself generates. It was witnessed in a previous time how burdensome it is for one body to move another body that has lost the will to move. Nonetheless, the body does not abandon itself. To ensure that the body continues to appear as if it is moving, and ultimately that all bodies might move, it struggles to move together. Whether the body, as an object, is alive or not.

It does not need to be alive, but it must move. That is the rule of document swimming.

Movement covers both life and death.

In the evening, when slow-moving people adopt gestures similar to swimming, the documents are projected onto their moving bodies.

The moving bodies need the ground. From the ground.

The body covers the ground.

The letters cover the body.

When the letters begin to read these bodies, they no longer concern themselves with their own form.

The letters ripple over the bodies. The movement of the letters encounters the body's contours, becoming tilted and distorted. Everything is dark. In the space embodied by darkness, the letters appear in white light. Leaning on the light of letters that have taken on the shape of the body, they observe the forms and movements of other bodies. Bodies clothed in letters, moving with the letters cast upon them. Those bodies, which are the cause of the letters' disintegration, are moving on their own.

Letters covering the body become harder to read, but letters that have passed through the body gradually become readable. Documents that circumvent life and death move over people who show their liveliness by moving voluntarily. The document reads those who swim. The letters, transformed by the readable bodies, mimic liveliness, depending on the vitality of the bodies.

The body receives the letters in a new way and continues to move.

“Palomar’s swimming self is immersed in a formless world where straight piles, vector shapes, and realms of force converge, separate, and shatter. Yet within him, there remains a singular point, like a mass, a clump, or a lump, where everything exists in a different way. In a world where existence is uncertain, there is a sense that you are here, yet may not truly exist.”^{[ 2 ]}

From the perspective of the document, the recipients of the document hold the same status as the deliverers. Recipients often see themselves as deliverers because they, in turn, pass the document on. Similarly, deliverers often view themselves as recipients because they receive documents to be delivered. Documents are cast upon multiple bodies, but these bodies are not dominated by the document. The document is either transformed as it is received or receives transformation as it is processed.

Documents and bodies encounter each other through movement.

Movement requires both documents and bodies.

The realization that they are not alone, and that they might be alone, captivates the observer. In the spacetime of their gestures, bodies swim through the observer's mind. The stationary observer, immersed in the bodies, comes to feel that they are the one moving the bodies. In the eerie, vibrant illusion, they begin to swim with their own body, alongside the other bodies and the document.

A document that has passed through time moves towards the coming time. In order to achieve the completeness of the prophecy it is destined to fulfill, the document sacrifices itself.

The entangled bodies gather each other. They guide and endure each other, circulating in their connection. They choose to continue in this way, and then move beyond each other.

Such a state is free.

There is something that looks like an empty box right over there.

“‘This is my domain, and it's not a matter of acceptance or exclusion. I can only exist right here in the middle.’ Palomar thinks. But what if the fate of life on earth is already determined? What if the rush toward death is stronger than any possibility of salvation?”^{[ 3 ]}

One of the truths glimpsed through a hole:

It doesn’t matter to die. One only hopes that death does not become the truth.

This statement applies equally to life.

The wind is our truth.

In response to the words of a moving body, you begin to move your own body.