worlds, not transworlds identity. There is no difficulty in saying that in the Broadway musical d'Artagnan is another individual who differs both from the Chevalier d'Artagnan who wrote his mémoires in W0 and from d'Artagnan in Dumas' WN. The three are linked by homonymy. (iv) Even caricatures blow up certain properties of real individuals and drop out many others. Recognizability is due to the fact that they are telling us that (under a certain description) these properties were the only ones that essentially defined the individual in question.
18. There are some exceptions: (i) The reader has not attentively read the previous parts of the text (empirical accident, not to be considered). (ii) The previous parts of the text were purposely ambiguous, the events only vaguely suggested: in this case the reader must read twice and look backwards to find the previous proof or disproof of his hypothesis.
19. Letter to Arnauld, 14 July 1686.
20. This reader is thus able to focus Drame as message, so actualizing its poetic function (Jakobson). See also in this book the essay on Edenic language (chapter 3). Drame is purposely ambiguous so as to elicit the reader's attention as focused upon its textual structure; in this way, Drame represents an aesthetic achievement (see also Eco, 1976, 3.7).