‘The
text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture…The
reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are
inscribed without any of them being lost; a text’s unity lies not in its origin
but in its destination. Yet this destination cannot any longer be personal: the
reader is without history, biography, psychology…[the reader] is simply that
someone who holds together in a single field all the traces by which the
written text is constituted.’
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (1973)
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