After rereading and annotating Erard’s essay a second time it did in fact shed some light upon the piece.  Erard is good at his job and keeps me interested the second time through. Even when expecting to be bored he grabs my attention. The metaphors that Erard uses in this piece are sneaky and I did not notice all of them before on the first read. I noticed that Erard has a skill to put the reader where he wants them to be. He is very good at using imagery to his advantage and keeping the reader interested in doing so. Reannotating in color made me retain key information that I would have forgot if I hadn’t. I used https://www.dictionary.com/ as my tool for glossing the text. Glossing the text did actually pull some paragraphs together shedding light onto their actual meaning. One example was finding the meaning of the word semantic, which was in the middle of the sentence, and I had no idea what it meant. Now after glossing I know that semantic means something relating to another. These strategies for reading are very helpful and honestly make you think and process at a much higher level. I would recommend using these strategies and will use them myself in the future.