A River Runs Through It: An American Tragedy

Coinciding eerily with the plotting of a criminal mind, a river cuts like a knife into the first full paragraph on page 507 of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy,  The World Publishing Company, 1948 edition.
    (A river runs through it. Don’t you get it? Its a typographic river. A white column of gaps in the text. This marks the third in a continuing series of typographic rivers in literature. The other two are here and here.)