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  1. Sep 2019
    1.  interpretation is the only game  in town

      A game has its set of rules, but strategy is unique. Therefore, interpretation is "strategy". In other words, everyone will view the text differently, but these interpretations will all connect with each other.

    2. What  is the reader  doing?  What is being  done  to him? For what purpose?–questions that  follow  necessarily  from  the assumption that  the text is not a spatial  object  but  the occasion  for a temporal experi­ence.

      These questions seem to focus on structure and writing style. Which in theory can help you understand why it was written, etc. However, is the way writing is presented an indicator for developing an interpretation? Wouldn't a reader still be connected to their personal views?

    3. The point  is that  while  there  is always a category  of things that  ‘are  not  done  (it  is simply   the  reverse  or  flip side  of  the category  of  things  that  are done),  the  membership in  that  cate­ gory  is continually changing.  It changes  laterally as one  moves from  subcommunity to subcommunity,

      There are some rules as to how to annotate for instance. There may be rules for how to dissect a passage to understand its meaning. However, "the reverse or flip side of the category of things that are done" usually occurs, and so it adds to interpretation as being endless non-restricting.

    4. but  the  real  question is what gives us the right so to be right.

      You can only define yourself as right if the text can support what you have extracted from the text.

    5. The truth lies plainly in view, available to anyone who  has the  eyes to see;  but  some  readers choose  not  to see it and  perversely substitute  their own  meanings for  the  meanings that  texts  obviously bear.

      This makes no sense! So is there a spectrum of incorrect interpretation? The audience is not necessarily ignorant, not everyone will understand what the author mean to say

    6. disagreement can only  be a theo­logical  error.

      Theology is the study of religious faith, practice, and experience(according to Merriam Webster).

      1. Disagreement in terms of interpretation, is a cause of our upbringing and what we believe in?
    7. disagreements must  occur  between those who hold  (or are  held by) different points of view, and  what  is at stake  in  a disagree­ment  is the right to specify what  the facts can hereafter be said to be.

      In theory, this is what interpretation is defined as... readers understand through their lens