The newspaper stream

Original fiction extract.

From the walkway above the press, we watched the first newspapers appear. They arrived too quickly to read, a white river carrying black weather. Headlines flashed at its surface and vanished beneath the next fold. The operator watched a counter instead of trying to follow a page. At the end of the line, the papers became neat stacks, suddenly still and countable. I could read the top headline then. It concerned an event which had happened quietly, somewhere far from this continuous rush of paper and machinery.

Choose one example from the extract and explain how the writer uses language to suggest the movement of the newly printed newspapers. Use your own words in your explanation.