They were coming at a pretty regular clip, but as the story was building, normally, as a reader, you control how fast you move through a text, but in this case, The New Yorker did, and they were sending you bit by bit by bit, and you had this suspense of waiting for the next line.
Avevano cadenza abbastanza regolare, ma mentre la storia si dipanava, normalmente, come lettori, si controlla  quanto velocemente ci si muove nel testo, ma in questo caso lo faceva il The New Yorker, e lo faceva un pezzo alla volta, c'era questa suspense nell'attesa della riga successiva.