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The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,788,772 ratings — published 1988
Arcadia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as indeterminism)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,068 ratings — published 1993
“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 reader as part of its structural strategy.”
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“In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.”
― Freedom Evolves
― Freedom Evolves