Pynchon and fascism

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:
> 
> You're talking about is the difference between  "Reality" and "Method."
> 
> But you're mixing and matching them up. You are attributing the
> "reality" or interpretation of the text to the reader and the method of
> the text to the text.
> But the text has its own reality or interpretation and its own
> method--order or structure or form or connectedness or argument.


If a more technical term is needed I would call the  "reality" (textual
and not extratextaul) signified by the text the "signification" of the
text. 

The reality presented in a text is its interpretation.