Slowly spit out text, paragraph by paragraph

conversation.sh

#!/bin/bash
FILE=conversation
LTIME=`stat -c %Z $FILE`
# Below is a Text width of 40
echo "========================================"
while true
do
    ATIME=`stat -c %Z $FILE`
    if [[ "$ATIME" != "$LTIME" ]]
    then
        timeout 1 aafire
        clear
        reset
        awk 'BEGIN{RS=""} {a=$0} END{print a}' $FILE | pv -qL 16
        LTIME="$ATIME"
    fi
    sleep 2
done