The space opened up by a text is not a “real” physical dimensional space. Is the idea of textual space not just a metaphor and therefore a gloss for how we actually experience the process of reading and writing? This seems to be true. We are using a spatial/temporal phenomenology. But the term space itself possesses complicated semantic meanings. Etymologically it does not just refer to physical extension and perspective. The term space possesses the meaning of lapse or duration in time. It refers both to the time and the distance between two points. So, space carries the meaning of temporal and physical expanse as well as the time spent in an experience. When we enter the perspectival space of the text we enjoy a temporal experience in the world evoked by the words of the text. Language and experience seem to coincide in this lived meaning of space. And for the writer this is where insights occur, where words may acquire a depth of meaning, where the author may experience human understanding. But this is also the place where writing shows its difficulties, where we find out what language really is, where writing may become impossible, where language ironically seems to rob us of the ability to say anything worth saying or saying what we seek to say.