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2) I will identify instances of textual self-awareness (ISE #4) that invite a potentially infinite cycle of self-referentiality as “ISEs” (Infinite Self-Examinations). In this sentence, Barthes invokes “our literature,” without conditions or parameters. He thereby includes his own text in this category, allowing the sentence to categorize itself. The veracity of his sentence is thereby dependent by the sentence’s conformity to its own mandates, inviting a potentially endless cycle, or an ISE.