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7) One of the most difficult problems inherent in Barthes’ text is the fact that, immediately after asserting that the future of literature is defined by its infinite potential for the plurality of interpretation, he establishes a protocol for categorizing metatexuality (ISE #6). He wants the reader to “function himself,” yet he structures the process (DIG #2) by which the reader could approach a text such as Sarrasine. The formula for expanding the referents of a text thereby becomes a truly limited process, reducible to a straightforward Wikipedia entry.