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Open text is one of a pair of terms popularized by Eco to refer to kinds of interpretative interactions between text and reader. An open text, unlike a closed one such as a work of popular fiction, is not aimed at a specific reader in a specific social context. It is also open in that its theme, structure and language are more complex, less explicit, more "open-ended": what other critics as Barthes in reception theory would call "Indeterminate". The open text constructs the model of its own read
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I am not an optimist; I am afraid that I won't live long enough to escape my bondage to the machines.
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― Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
― Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
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