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Like sport, like music, attentional effort is first of all worthwhile for its individuation effects. The most important thing that it produces is not simply the possibility of pursuing the individuation of our being (helping us to avoid external threats of destruction), but, above all, the _concr…

That towards which our reflexive attention tends (adtendere) belongs to what narratology calls a metalepsis, by which it refers to the collapse of two narrative levels that are imagined to be distinct and impermeable

[...] the effects of diffraction and polysemy peculiar to linguistic signifiers, so as to find as signification in the text that exceeds both what the author wanted to put there and what readers believed they had found as they sought to reconstitute the author's intentions. Indeed, in contrast to h…