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2010-01-30

David Foster Wallace

...and it's now pretty much universally accepted that (a) meaning is inseparable from some act of interpretation and (b) an act of interpretation is always somewhat biased, i.e., informed by the interpreter's particular ideology.
From "Authority and American Usage" in Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays, Back Bay Books, New York, 2006.
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