Every watcher is watched, each a player in some more encompassing play. The duality is irresolvable for the duration of play. This relationship between watching and being watched is what the play is about. The part of the spectator is not a passive part; this speculative vision lays a net of nuclear relationships upon the watched. It "over-codes" the unobserved.

Speculation is a development, an evolutionary outcome. We are not born spectators; we must learn the practice from our parents. The child evolves to parent; the parent originates as the child. The difference between parent and child is the difference between watching and being watched. There is a spectator at the baby's birth. The Father is already present; the watcher is already there, though nowhere to be seen. The child cannot watch except by putting on the cloak of parenthood.

The world's great monotheisms constitute symbolic representations of the evolution of the spectator, the great speculator, the author of the play. The reader/writer fancies her/himself a god. Writing is spermatic; reading is the egg.