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.
Venían a un ritmo bastante regular, pero a medida que se desarrolla la historia, normalmente, como lector, uno controla el ritmo de lectura, pero en este caso, lo hacía The New Yorker y hacían entregas poquito a poco, y uno sentía el suspenso de esperar la próxima línea.