That is to say, the entire tissue, structure, and nature of our lives our lives are textual lives. That's what he meant.

也就是说，我们生命的整个组织，结构，和本质,我们的生活就是文本的生活，他指的就是这个。

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The reader projects before himself a meaning for the text as a whole as soon as some initial meaning emerges in the text.

一旦文本开始构成意义读者,就会对整个文本,做出自己的解读。

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