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9) If the reader accepts this statement, he is implicating himself and Barthes in the production and consumption of readerly texts. (ISE #8) He is agreeing with the idea that readerly texts allow their readers to agree passively, thereby enacting the problem even as he diagnoses it. If he rejects the statement, he disrupts Barthes’ dichotomy (DIG #3) (which is itself troubling for a text which would like to encourage a plurality – not a duality- of meaning). He disagrees with the premise of Barthes’ argumentation, and therefore cannot arrive at the same conclusion. Either way, the reader contributes to the stagnation of literature in the act of reading the sentence. In other words, he demonstrates the problem inherent in reading a readerly text BY reading a readerly text.