We could think of it as the contractual relation that a writer makes with his reader.

我们可以把它看作一种契约关系,作者与读者之间订立的契约。

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And when you come to read it, what you're putting yourself in my position, as it were, and you are partaking of precisely the same activity as I "the first writer-reader" was.

而当你阅读时，换句话说，当你代替了我的角色时，你的阅读活动其实和我这个,第一个作者与读者的活动相同。

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