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limits of interpretation coincide with the rights of the text (which does not mean with the rights of its author). |
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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. |
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If there is something to be interpreted, the interpretation must speak of something which must be found somewhere, and in some way respected. |
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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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