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Although the reader has freedom to choose whatever route he or she wants, said Eco, the text places limits on these choices by making certain routes more "reasonable...
...even though narrative has its own logic, the modern readers is at a disadvantage. Eco pointed out that we are not "model" readers who can intuitively detect textual subtleties as intended, but "empirical" readers, who impose our own passions on the text...
...There is an interplay that takes place in the text with the act of reading," he said. "The concept of the implied reader is a textual structure...
...Many stories asks the reader to fill in the gaps," Eco said. "If a text were to say everything, it would go on forever...
...narrative text, there is a route, where the readers has to turn left or right," he said. "At the end of every sentence, we make a bet about the narrator's choice...