To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.

在创作的时候，作者会给文章加上个限制，他最后会给出一个象征意义来结束写作。

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Close reading, the idea that you could take a text and do things with it--that the interpretation of a text wasn't just a matter of saying, "Oh, yes, it's about this and isn't it beautiful?"

当你拿到一篇文章之后,你所能做的不只是说些像,“哦，这是关于这个的，它读起来，是不是很美啊“之类的话“

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