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VII:33.  In the “pure literacy” of codexspace — I mean the, perhaps, unobtainable ideal of applied grammatology — the text performs silently, without necessary reference to a prior or an anticipated voice. What interaction there is takes place not in relation to an author, but with the text itself, or rather with impressions of the text which are transferred into the textual life of the reader. The text itself does not change, although the way it is constructed and printed may indicate alternate reading strategies, and the random or indexed reordering of sub-elements may be possible. However, the most meaningful extension of the text occurs through the (unlimited) interpretative function of the reader (see above ¶30), who may even experience the indication of alternate strategies as an unwarranted attempt to control or contain the reader-liberated pleasures of the text.

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