Does he want to say that he's just an author function, that his textual field is a kind of set of structural operations within which one can discover an author?

他是不是想说他只是个功能性的作者，而他所写的文章只是一套,用于发现作者的结构上的应用程序？

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Specter, to make the operations function the responsibility of a separate intelligence agency.

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Speake-Marin plans to gradually delegate operations until he can function purely as an ideas guy.

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The guys in operations were also using the emulation function.

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