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The Text (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

The Text (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in contrast to the work, without a source . The 'author' is a mere 'guest' at the reading of the text.

The Text (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a definitive object.

The Text (n.) answers ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination. This is because the text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: An irreducible plural. The text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an over-crossing.

The Text (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠prove to me that it desires me. In other words, it must attain to 'writing', the science of the various blisses of language.

A Text (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠unified not in its origin but in its destination the reader makes the first unity of the text when he takes it up in his hands.