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... If one further wants to pay attention to the plurality of a text ... one has to abstain from structuring this text to a great degree ... no construction of the text ... to comment on step by step means to renew the entries to the text by force, ... means rather than collecting the text, to dissolve it in all directions much as a star radiates. ...Text is in its mass comparable to the starry sky, simultaneously flat and deep, smooth, without edges, without points of reference. So as the viewer picks out an imaginary square therein with the point of his stick, in order to study the flight of birds according to specific principles, the commentator draws the text alongside literary forms, in order to observe the pathways of meanings, the soft touches of the codes, the passage of quotations. ...
(Barthes, Roland: S/Z, Frankfurt/Main 1976, p. 7 cont.)