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limits of interpretation coincide with the rights of the text (which does not mean with the rights of its author).
Even in the case of self-voiding texts (see the chapter "Small Worlds") we have semiosic objects which without any shade of doubt speak of their own impossibility. Let us be realistic: there is nothing more meaningful than a text which asserts that there is no meaning.
If there is something to be interpreted, the interpretation must speak of something which must be found somewhere, and in some way respected.
Returning to Wilkins, in a world dominated by Übermensch-Readers, let us first rank with the Slave. It is the only way to become, if not the Masters, at least the respectfully free Servants of Semiosis.

 
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