According to Google Analytics, the number of visitors to my Residua website has been dropping lately. Quite markedly, too. My journey inward is not to their taste, it appears. As I am spending more and more of my time reading my writings and writing addenda, the interest of the proverbial general reader is waning. Besides, it is hard to find my new addenda. Or is it? Be that as it may, the statistics make me happy. Who needs the superficial reader, anyhow? As for the reader of choice, he or she will follow me without any difficulty on my meanderings through my magnum opus. Inward, dear reader! Always inward. And keep it our secret.

Addendum (July 8, 2016)

Google Analytics offers all sorts of information about visitors to a website. This includes the number of individual visitors, the number of their visits, the total number of pages viewed, the number of pages viewed per visit, visit duration, and the like. It also offers information about the share of new visitors, as well as the share of the returning ones. All this is of some interest, no doubt, but their behavior is even more interesting. For instance, Google Analytics offers information about landing and exit pages, as well as the sequence of pages viewed during a visit. Most important, it offers information about search words used during a visit. And this is how I know that the bulk of visitors to my Residua website is of the superficial variety. Very few among them are using the search function with any prowess, let alone ingenuity. Which is why the title of this piece cannot but make me smile sheepishly. Alas, the so-called reader of choice is only a figment of my imagination. Nay, delusion. Inward, dear reader, my ass!