A Hypothetical Journal Investigating The Interrelated Subjects Of `Textuality' And `Interpretation'

Day 1: Setting The Goals Of This Journal

	The object of this journal is to examine in phenomenological depth the interrelated subjects of `textuality' and `interpretation,' in effect establishing the outline of a phenomenological hermeneutics.

	In this informal journal I will be investigating the phenomenon of text, i.e., its textuality, and, the phenomenon of interpretation, i.e., the hermeneutic dimension or aspect of our in depth reading, or appropriation, of a text or series of texts. Our investigations taking a balanced perspective between the phenomenological nature of those investigations and its hermeneutic dimension. As noted elsewhere, from a transcendental point of view as entertained in an act of judgment from the perspective of that very act of judgment itself, I would argue that under those terms of reference an equation of coincidence or equality exists, or should exist, between the `phenomenon of interpretation' and the `interpretation of phenomena.'
	Moreover, and this will be dealt with in detail at a later point in time, the hermeneutic perspective will also be regarded as being directed towards the trans-thematical pole or polarity, i.e., as the relationship a phenomenon has with its horizon(s) for appreciation (and which in turn involves factual-potential determination, questions of pragmatical interest and inter-contextual levels of directly interpretive trans-thematical appreciation).

Day 2: Defining Various Forms Of Textuality

	I would like to make this definition rather broad so as to encompass the trace of all intentional deposition whether it was intentionally meant to be deposited or not, and, whether it was intentionally deposited in such a manner that would allow that text to be read or not read. 

	To start with we can note the type of expression that alludes to the `text of nature' whether it be seen as the handiwork of a divine agent or not. E.g., our intelligent `reading' of the fossil or geological `record'. It would seem to be the prime phenomenological characteristic, in the use of this type language, that there exists a certain body of  conventions that allows us, from a certain point of view, to interpret that natural text whether that particular pseudo-text was intended or not intended by some form of intentional agency. These conventions can be seen as meta-textual regardless of the intentional or non-intentional status of that text. In the applied use of such a metaphor (of reading the book of nature, or similar) certain conventions are seen to exist and are taken up and used for a particular type of appreciation that enriches our understanding of that subject matter, if such application is appropriate under those terms of reference.
	Next, we can note the deposition of intentional activity without the intention that such a deposition was meant to be read. In this light we might like to view a series of footprints along a lonely beach. The footprints were most likely not meant to be read although with some knowledge and practice such a trace can be read. In this regard we might like to consider that non-intentionally determined behaviour, the person inadvertently stumbling or tripping over, imprinted in the course of this trail of footprints as non-natural non-textual material supplementary to the overall non-natural textual nature of those footprints. On the other hand if the person thought someone might later read those footprints and did not desire a correct reading to occur they might like to walk backwards along this beach in the hope that the trail might be seen as going in the opposite direction. In this situation we have a text that is intended to be read, should it be viewed by someone in general or in particular, albeit in such a fashion as to most probably induce a misreading of that deceptive `text'. Such a text can now be considered as textual in its commission with this textual text being mono-thematic in its presentation as a text (the sub-text of that text in part, or, super-text in total, setting out with the non-ostensive intentional signification to deceive).
	A poly-thematic text has more than one intentional level of reading intended for its deeper, more adequate, appreciation. E.g., a poem should be poly-thematic through its overt use of metaphor, processes of analogy, etc? E.g., a humorous text must have more than one level of meaning exposed in its successful creation and reception otherwise that text will not be able to function as a humorous text (wherein the first text that is read is over-written or revoked by a second textual reading).
	The overall text can be seen as acting as a con-text for textual facets discerned in the body of that text. The tacit or stated conventions for the reading of a text being treated as the meta-text (and comments discovered in the text concerning these conventions for its reading being treated as meta-textual even if presented at the level of the text, i.e., in-textually).
	Some additional definitions to note include anti-text; the text that parallels the negation of the text in order to give the latter its thematizational contrast (hence the complementariness of the anti-text). Also, as each text is deposited in a certain genre-like format from a certain perspective all other possible perspectives for that text are essentially counter-textual to some degree or other, i.e., hence their collective supplementariness to that apparently primary textual position). 
	The `definition' of the non-text should also be attempted in order to give the idea of textuality a sense of differentiation through its contrast with the non-textual. Perceiving the text as a simulation, or as a re-simulation (in order to give it a necessary degree of repetitive retention), we might like to regard both the experience and the contents of this state of reconstitution as its necessary foil in this regard. Re-defining text as facing or pointing to the re-construction of this state of simulation, and, the meta-text as that facing or pointing to `how' and `in what manner' this state of simulation is to be re-constituted.

Day 3: The Central Role For Metaphor In Textuality 

	In the comprehension, translation, interpretation and comparison of texts there is a central role performed by an appreciation of the metaphor central and/or essential to that text, or texts, under review.

	By metaphor is meant, in a philosophical sense, all analogical types of textual devices whether they be linguistic or non-linguistic in their textual/metatextual deposition. E.g., the blue patches in the painting are meant to be interpreted as either water or sky depending on whether they are in the bottom half or the top half of the painting. E.g., in the chronicle the warrior was described as like a lion, as swift as a deer and an immovable elephant in the thick of battle. E.g., in the poem the poet apparently intends the dark storm clouds to symbolize the fears the person in the poem had for the future, etc.
	The use of metaphor is of the form that a certain state of affairs x is like some other state of affairs y where by `like' is meant `is' and `not is', the metaphor being introduced into a covert metaphorical field that has effectively already been predetermined as to in what manner the overt metaphor is to function, i.e., be `read'. This reading essentially discovering/recovering the central point between this `is like' and `is not like'. This reading being either determined conventionally through a recognition of the genre of the meta-text and/or a close reading of the text in order to determine either meta-textual comments embedded in the that text and/or textual interpretations that seem to deliver the greatest degree of appropriate textual meaningfulness. Correctly, however, no text can be read without some form of simultaneous textual/metatextual interaction and reciprocity.
	By `central and/or essential' is meant what covert metaphor, and possible overt metaphor, are basically relevant to that text in order that it remain essentially the same deposition.

Day 4: Where Is The Metaphor In A Mere List

	A problem is immediately apparent if we assume a shopping list, e.g., is a text and that the understanding and translation into another natural language of this list is conducted by an appreciation of the metaphor central to that text. What metaphor could possibly be found in a shopping list? On the other hand our appreciation of that text and its translation in accordance with our emphasis on the presence of metaphor demands that some form of metaphor must be present in order to salvage this proposal. Can we demonstrate such a feature in a monothematic list?
	
	The solution to this puzzle is to realize that the content of a text might possess no metaphor but the metatextual form of that text, as an example of a general genre type, must possess some form of metaphorical implication. In this case we a have a text that is essentially empty of metaphorical content but which in its conventional format possesses a metaphorical form, namely, as a list, and more specifically, as a shopping list. In its normal functional-context an item and its quantity is noted on the list with the object of its obtainment in a shop of the appropriate kind and its transfer to the care and use of the person or persons implied by the list.
	This puzzle illustrates, I believe, that the metatext must possess some form of metaphorical implication but that the text need not possess direct metaphorical content. On the other hand metaphorical content implies a non-mono-thematic structuralization of that text even if the overall text itself appears to be essentially mono-thematic.

Day 5: Necessity For the Determination Of The Meta-Text

	All texts are written and read, interpreted and compared in conjunction with the determination of their implicit meta-textual conventions adopted in such active /passive writing/reading. This section concerns the nature of such a necessary component in textuality and the manner of how in general such an implicit aspect meets our recognition and appreciation.

	The ordering of the contents of that text and its relationship to other types of text, or genres in a world of intertextuality, establishes how that text is to be both written and read. The determination of this meta-textual context necessitates our appreciation of the covert metaphorical structural-functions at work in the formation and expected reading of that text, and, this recognition necessitates an appreciation of the conventional and non-conventional elements at work in such a formation and genre association. 
	It must be considered a general rule that the formation of a text necessitates the adoption of some form of a genre, or mix of genres, already to hand for that author and their adaptation to some degree or other of the same. The very structuring of that text is dependent on some form of covert metaphorical mapping in the contextually determined gestation of that text. Moreover, such genre appropriation also alters the generality of that conventional format particularizing it in the light of its own agenda.
	Two problems present themselves at this point in our investigations, namely, what is the general nature of this meta-textual background, if such a question can be asked, and in our reading of the text how is it recognized and reconstituted?
	As a general gestalt rule all appreciation is field dependent implying that a text is appreciated in a field of textuality. It also stands to reason that the very ordering adopted in the manufacture of a text is in need of some system of differentiation not that this system is immune itself, to some degree or other, from being re-informed by the nature of the task set by the author of that text and the nature of that text.
	Imagine the following situation. We find a cryptic note on the desk of a friend of ours that reads the black cat is sitting on the mat. How are we to interpret such a statement without the recognition and essential reconstitution of some field appropriate to the relatively correct reading of this text? Without a context how could we possibly read that text
and determine its full import, its structural meaning and functioning meaningfulness? On the other hand our recognition of that text as an instance of text necessitates our already having appropriated certain conventions from our own background in order to approach this text refining along the way what seems to work for us and loosing sight of what does not appear to assist us in this task of interpretation. However, to what degree does this interrogation of the text take before the provisional nature of its investigations, methods and results take before their collective treatment is considered to be definitive. In this matter must we consider our resultant treatment to be univocal? Although all treatment is aspectival in its orientation in our phenomenological investigations of a text, in a delineation of its meaning structures, must our approach by necessity be purely uni-focal in its reconstituted orientation? For a start aspect can be generalized and refocused in the course of those investigations in sympathy with the nature of that text (in the same sympathetic manner it adapted or reformulated those meta-textual conventions in its formation). Moreover, to use a depth metaphor, in going around the phenomenon, in this instance a text of some description or other, and looking at it carefully from a number of directions the center of that particular textual phenomenon can be thematically and categorically located in the social and cultural mapping of our psychic universe. In this regard a number of commensurable `directions' actually helps to establish the psychic center of that phenomenon which might well be necessary in order to precisely locate in memory the nature of that phenomenon under review. At the same time a general approach will subsume those aspects later adopted that generally fall within the ambit of that less differentiated orientation. Lastly, through the epistemological and psychological levels, and, layers of cultural sedimentation meaning can never be merely univocal nor purely monothematic. Moreover, through its differential distinction, in a field, demarcation of that under focus can never be absolutely distinctive nor absolutely non-distinctive with the import that the text is mirrored by anti-textual structures in the background context of that differential field and can only make sense through processes of resolution; a resolution of the potential dissonance of that text both among parts of that text with respect to itself, and, with respect to the totality of that text in its closest inter-textual environment. This textual - anti-textual relationship meeting an ongoing resolution both in its formation and in its re-reading, a process that cannot be stabilized completely and which in the deconstruction, marginalization, subversion of that text, etc., dialectically reveals, qualifies and limits additional aspects and readings of that text in a supplementary and complementary fashion. E.g., chairs are logically defined as furniture for sitting on but in the real world they can be slept in, stood upon, eat off, treated as art objects, seen as potential weapons, etc.
	Now let us return to the statement discovered on the desk of a friend which read the black cat is sitting on the mat. Not knowing the context for this statement and its reasons for being written down we ask our friend how they might interpret this document. We are told that it is in code and is a message left by this person' wife to the effect that their mother-in-law (cat) is in an angry (black) mood and is at home (implied by the segment of text reading sitting on the mat). With such meta-textual information to hand we now feel the statement has both a meaning and a meaningfulness that would have otherwise entirely escaped us even though the sentence, as a sentence in the english language, has a clear import within its own terms of reference. A reference that is, namely, a cat, as yet unreferenced, that happens to be both black and sitting on the mat, a mat that is also currently without a possible reference to some particular mat in the world. The ordinary recognition of this sentence as a meaningful sentence in the english language without a more specific meta-textualization only revealed minimal information about that statement itself. On the other hand after being given the code the meaning and meaningfulness of this statement now takes on a greater import for us. Of course the following questions can still be asked. Was a code, as a particular type of meta-textual device, meant to be applied in the reading of this text (perhaps it was merely meant to be the starting line of a poem or nursery rhyme) and if a code was meant to be applied do we have the correct code, and, if so has it be correctly applied in this reading of this text? Contextual considerations by necessity deserve in the final analysis contextual extra-textual terms of reference. E.g., we make the observation that the mother-in-law is indeed at home and that the wife of this friend recognized the code word cat as meaning mother-in-law. Finally, we can make the observation that most of our reading of world-texts is adequate and non-controversial. That only on the edges of our hermeneutic programmes are we confronted by questions that remain questions (and accept mis-interpretations without further question, etc.). The implication being that we can indeed appreciate the covert presence of meta-textual conventions and that this generally is performed without too much difficulty.
	Do we need a meta-text? Imagine the following situation. I wish to write a letter to a friend. Already I have the intention of adopting a pre-constituted genre, namely, that literary form of the letter. Now in the actual writing of this letter I adapt my adoption of this genre but in such a way that it still appears as a letter and not a shopping list or a telegram for that matter. Meta-textuality is inescapable in the writing/reading of a text. When the conventions are implicitly understood, are part of our cultural, and personal, background meta-textual appreciation slips past us without being noticed. Because the meta-text is not palpably seen does not mean that it does not exist.
	An objection to the need for this formalized meta-textual presence is that the formulation of a meta-text would need the formation of a meta-meta-text, etc. In an answer to this objection I would make the following comments. First, if indeed meta-textuality is the object of our attention then it is necessary to have some form of a meta-meta-textual appreciation, perhaps of a philosophical nature or some form of literary criticism, in order to deal with the presentation of that meta-textual `text' or set of `texts'. Second, we must realize that at no point in time can the text be read, or written, purely at the surface level of that textual presentation. The meaningfulness of the text, its communication of information, is enacted between the meta-text and the text, etc., and not at either the mere level of the text or the meta-text per se., etc. Meta-textuality as a genre is already pre-constituted (in the domain of potentially public textual property) and awaits re-appropriation.

Day 6: Determination Of Meta-Textuality 

	No text can be appreciated in itself, in pure textual terms of reference. Hence the interpretive demand for the appropriate appropriation of an adequately developed field of meta-textuality. The question then arises how this field is to be determined both for the commission of that act of textuality and its reading, interpretation and comparative evaluation, etc?

	All intentionally focused content necessitates, for its appreciation, the triple polarities of an appropriate field or horizon, the simulated presence of intentionally focused content and the appearance of an appropriate, self-determining, intentionally exercised sense of a perspective or a series of perspectives, and their accompanied sense of a perceiver (in keeping with the nature of these two other polarities and the perspective or perspectives adopted). Now the axiom accepted that "no appreciation without an appropriate field" it implies that to appreciate a text necessitates the prior development of a textual field of appreciation, i.e., the determination and thematization of its meta-textuality. Hence the necessity for the determination and on-going refinement of the development of our appreciation of meta-textuality both in general and in particular. In general terms of reference in regard to a vague appropriation and re-appropriation of genre, and, in particular terms of reference in regard to the special development of meta-textual terms of reference in order to deal adequately with that particular text, or series of texts, currently under review.
	It would seem a sensible position, to adopt in a resolution of this problem, to assume that different genres would demand different forms of meta-textual recognition. However, it might be safely assumed that a primary mode for meta-textual determination would stem from a recognition of the meta-textual format imposed upon the form of that text under review and that a refinement of this evaluation would take place along pragmatic lines of investigation. Also allied to such a provisional self-thematizing approach would be a close reading of such textual devices as titles, declarations of intent in the form of prefaces, postscripts, comments, etc. Also to be noted would be the margins of that text in order to determine how it is framed and differentiated from its anti-textual and counter-textual gestalt environment, as necessary for a determination of its psychic location(s) and perspective(s) in our intersubjective experience of a social world.
	E.g., a list would look like a list, a letter would look like a letter, etc. That generally an evaluation of style would perform this act of determination for us. `Style' being seen as both the distinctive types of relative dissonance provocatively created within a text and the distinctive manner adopted for their apparent on-going resolution within that text. This sense of provocation through difference setting up both this appearance of relative anomaly and indicating simultaneously therein the most probable psychic mechanisms for its resolution, i.e., through some form of an accommodational pathway, or pathways, for the re-integration of such provocative material. All informational content in a text being transmitted and communicated through such double-sided provocational treatment.
	As a rule of thumb I would like to propose the following method for the determination of the broad outline of a text's meta-text by invoking this Rule of Ratios, namely, that the natural elements of the text stand in a certain manner to the con-textual totality of that text in a similar fashion to how the con-textual totality of that text stands to its implicit meta-textual set of individualized genre-conventions. I.e:

		(Textual fragments : Con-textual totality)= T:C
		(Con-textual totality : Meta-text) = C:M

	Such that:

		(T:C):(C:M)

	This intuitive observation must be complemented by those sections of the text that have an obvious met-textual complexion, e.g., meta-textual comments embedded in the text, titles, sub-titles, prefaces, introductions, forewords, conclusions, postscripts, epilogues, etc. 
	Realizing that textual comments are directly referring to textual considerations, i.e., to the meaningful simulation apparently intended by that text, and, that meta-textual comments are directly referring to meta-textual aspects of that text, i.e., how and in what manner that simulation is to be read. With this insight before us we can easily realized one fundamental reason why the creation of meta-textual aspects can never directly refer to the text per se even if ostensively presented at the level of the text (although sheer repetition itself, and its consequent thematizational enrichment, and sometimes re-direction or displacement, etc., of the perspective and psychic location of that text, can also accomplish, more often than not, this state of reconstitutional dissimilarity).
	If someone, or a text, asks us a strange question or makes a strange statement we are normally inclined, in this type of situation, to question whether we have indeed understood that question or statement. Such re-considerations are meta-textual. We ask ourselves why that question was asked or why was that statement made? If we find we are still in the dark on such matters we then might like to shift the direction of this question towards that person or text that asked that question or made that statement. In effect we take a closer look at the meta-textual context in which this question or statement was introduced. A resolution of this situation making itself felt when a clarification of the meta-textual environment appears to make sense of this `text' under this closer reading. This is not to deny, however, that we might still have not understood the meta-text that introduced that apparent textual anomaly. Such matters can always, in theory at least, be subject to revision even if in practical terms of reference such a state of continual suspicion might not be called for through the apparent resolution of that text's apparently revealed intentions. When a text appears to work for us need we flog it any further? Moreover, we must not assume that because some form of behaviour appears to be intentioned that the author or authors of that text comprehended the full implications of the meaning enstructuralization that constituted that deposition. Only a well formed text can have its intentions adequately mastered although we should rightly question if a text could ever be absolutely mastered by either its author, or authors, or by any one of its readers.

Day 7: Evocative Reading Of Overt Metaphorical Structures

	The content of a text is evocationally represented and analogued. Normally the evocational content in a text is relatively non-controversial by nature.

	In a `text' evocational content is meta-textually delineated as the basic units of meaning to be manipulated by that text. By `basic' is meant the most simple, i.e., apparently self-integrated, meaning-complexes to be utilized by that text. 
	Evocational content is either imprinted, analogued, named or associated with some distinctively treated phenomenal manifestation. E.g., a series of depositionally imprinted footprints. E.g., in an adventure story the mention of a `hissing sound' analoguing the sound of a snake. E.g., the explicit naming of an epic figure as heroic and the implicit association of a series of heroic deeds to reinforce this heroic characterization. 
	Essentially these evocational segments of text are meant to re-present that which is `assigned' under such signification. In the text these signs `signing off' once coupled to that which they re-present regardless of the extra-textual status of that significantly re-affirmed. These textual units being partially isolated as textual phenomena by their being `sign allocated' and `de-signed' for mental repetition and re-cognition, i.e.,  their delineation as signs `marked off' for intentional processes of retention and trans-evocational manipulation.
	In the following sentence the evocational content is marked off by the use of brackets.

	(The cat) ( sat on) (the mat).

	Evocational content being hierarchically located in a sentential-like structure and generally mirroring the structural-functions of the language and its semantic logic. E.g:

	{[the black (cat)] sat on} [the black (mat)]

	This sentence evoking the following content of blackness, catness, sitting and matness along with the suggestion of two definite `articles' being dealt with.
	In a text the evocational content is usually non-controversial in character. E.g., a footprint is seen as a footprint and named, or declared, as such. In a poem what is represented is evoked whether that be a mood, a description, a complex idea, the recounting of a reflection or judgment, etc. Covert meta-textual metaphor manipulate this evocational material in keeping with the apparent meta-textual intentionality exercised, if present, in the deposition of that text. E.g., through the juxtaposition of evocational material provocational structures are brought into play that express the style of that text in the light of its meta-textual predeterminations and its on-going thematization through the `progress' of that text.
	A non-complicated first reading of that text exhibiting its evocational traces. Signs of overt metaphorical traces being brought into focus through a questioning or suspension of the status of that under such treatment. In a religious-philosophical text we might find the following type of expression... `the world is like a dream.' The explicit metaphor is evoked through the use of a comparison to a dream, the covert nature of this metaphorical usage determining in what way `being like a dream' this particular text is using such a metaphor, i.e., what aspects of the phenomenon of dreaming are being meta-textually promoted and what aspects are being relatively non-promoted or suppressed.
	Overt metaphors are discovered in textual texts in which the textual content is non-monothematic and subject to an implicit state of transcendental suspension.

Day 8: Classification of Textuality

	Textuality is classified by reference to the perceived structural-functioning of that text under examination. This review must always be provisional even though pragmatical considerations might let us treat it as effectively transparent as to its intentional or non-intentional content. 
	
	Correctly, however, textuality can never be considered as perfectly transparent nor as perfectly opaque. There is always the possibility that the text may or may not be intentional (e.g., computer created), that the text may be polythematic, multi-aspectival, multi-functional, complexly valued, etc.).
	Monothematic texts are inclined to set a false standard for us in this business of hermeneutic investigation. A telephone book, e.g., needs little interpretation and could be used, and pointed to, as evidence that a text can be completely investigated, revealed as transparent both in the form of its intentions and in its content. But can any text be truly closed, be subjected to some form of absolute closure? 
	To begin with we must realize, as already pointed out, that a text can only be understood when its meta-textual conventions are adequately understood, an appreciation that is tested through the use of that text, i.e., in allowing it to function in accordance with its apparent intentionality. A genre is appropriated, adapted to the special conditions to hand and then allowed to function in accordance with those general and special conditions attached to its `conventions' for reading. Those conventions are, more often than not, both tacit and implicit, and are adopted, and, if found to work successfully for us are then assumed to have been correctly appropriated. Usually all this is conducted without much reflection. It is only when our reading of those expected conventions does not seem to work for us that we start to question the meta-textual status of that text. Similarly, if some one successfully points out to us that our prior reading was deficient, or, that the text was not monothematic and correctly needed a deeper reading do we start to reflect on the meta-textual nature of that text. 
	Such difficulties are usually obviated by correctly intuiting the general and special conditions that are explicitly and implicitly associated with the conventions of that genre adopted for the writing and reading of that kind of text. For example, an instance of an unspecified type of text is committed to a certain form of textual inscription. The very nature of this process is, in theory, repeatable. Certainly the reading of this text in ideal conditions is a task that can be re-performed although in the everyday world this task for various reasons may not be able to be conducted in practice. In essence some form of distance intervenes between the writing and the reading.
	An appreciation of the structural-function of the text allows us to classify it. In this regard we can note the following provisional classification and propose the following classificational procedure in our application of this schema.

1.	Delineation of the text and proposing a provisional meta-textual reading of the form/content of the same.
2.	Delineating the psychic margins of that text and in the process observing the boundary conditions between that text and its non-textual environment.
3.	Articulating an appropriately constructed and conducted transcendental reading of that text in terms of its apparent transcendental structural-functioning centered on a close reading of the metaphorical form and content of that text-metatext within the confines of an ongoing, informal hermeneutic circle.
4.	Through a deconstructive critique demonstrate the limits of that text with respect to:
	i.	text - meta-text,
	ii.	text - anti-text (about its general point of tr. 											   suspension),
	iii.	text - counter-text(s) (i.e., counter-textual 												 aspects),
	iv.	text - textual values,
	v.	text - non-text (both internally and externally).
5.	By reiterating a general critique taking into special account the findings in our last subcategory that dealt with the internal/external delineations of the non-text. By internal is meant that part of the text simulated in the various regions of a collective non-verbal orientation. By external is meant that part of the text referred to, or not referred to, as outside the boundaries of that text determined by the previous section 4. i - iv. That the illusion of the `external' is realized through its non-verbally experienced contrast with text, meta-text, anti-text, counter-text(s) and apparently pre-determined textual values. Although, it might be added, more correctly, that the re-simulation of the situation within the hermeneutic circle is simultaneously also outside these same terms of reference through the direct and central nature of the relational process; relational participants being seen as psychically extracted from this original embrace with such extraction never being absolutely successful in its disassociation.
	This metaphor of internal and external regions of the hermeneutic circle collapses in existentially conducted determination, i.e., in our relationship with the non-verbal simulated experience there is a direct contact with the `re-presentational' region referred to outside the hermeneutic circle. The existential collapse of the verbal text allowing us to realize the directness of a direct relationship with `our world of experience' as `our experience of the world'.
	Generally, however, a determination of the classification of a text is conducted through a determination of the style of a text and that is conducted through an appreciation of its dissonant, or rather provocative, structural-functions. Moreover, it is proposed, that all forms of communication are phenomenally conducted through this same type of relatively fundamental mechanism.

Day 9: The Provocative Transmission Of Information

	Under this heading it is proposed that information is communicated through a process of provocation, i.e., the resolution of dissonance experienced through a process of accommodation with the field of that transmission. It will be argued that the successful transmission of information is a process of pre-directed resolution of informational difference that re-establishes the most appropriate relationship between those textual elements that constituted the appearance of an intentionally formed text.

	That by necessity such communication must always be textually based even though, it will be argued, such a transformational experience cannot be reduced merely to the reception of a series of textual elements. That in essence communication of information is realized through the relationship these apparent bits of information have with respect to each other and to the simulation of a field, and, the related nature of our reception of this experience of inter-textuality (between texts and/or genres) and trans-textually (between the text and our meta-textual reception of the same). In this light the communication of information might be viewed as a process of textual transformation. On this view the transfer of information cannot be regarded as the mere accumulation of informational bits. Rather, a process of transformation is induced through the resolution of a provocative state of dissonance experienced in the creation and/or reception of a text. Provocation being seen as a double process of experiential dissonance that also simultaneously reveals the most probable pathway or pathways open to it for the resolution of this state of induced dissonance through a process of accommodation, or overwriting, and therein re-establishing the relationship of that current dissonant focus and its associated field as a field of consonance (hence the transmission of information by the re-activation of the same or similar pathways apparently intended by that act of potentially provocative communication).
	A series of words does not constitute a text unless that text is meant to be merely a disconnected series of words, the sheer listing of a sequence of non-related, random items. Even a list, e.g., a shopping list, is not a mere list by virtue of the fact that its meta-textual import is implicit in addition to those listed items. In other words the schema of the list itself as a list is perceived in addition to the items placed under or within that list.
	One criticism that might be leveled at this type of proposal is to ask how the transmission of a series of random textual elements could be reviewed if the text in toto itself has no overall intentional formation?
	To answer this criticism we need to realize that the transmission of words, e.g., already involves bits of recognizable information, namely letters plus correctly placed blank spaces between those words. Even those elementary letters themselves occur in the context of an alphabet that has predecided the situation as to how such elements are going to be interpreted, etc.
	The communicational-harmony released in a relatively correct reading of a text is achieved through a process involving some form of accommodational resolution. That to a certain extent the text is set up as to in what manner this directed process of provocational protention and reversal of dissonance, through some form of accommodation, is going to be re-enacted.
	The critically conducted hermeneutic process therefore resides in a close reading of the provocative structures marked out in a text at that level of informational transfer that characterizes the overall apparent intentional nature of that text beyond which our examination can only be speculative. However, our text subject to such critical attention may only be able to reveal that its formation is, to all reasonable appearances, not well-formed. Moreover, the text at this level in our appreciation of its maximum apparent textuality can also suffer from an under attention or over attention to detail and/or defects in the actual process of transmission-reception causing virtual errors to form in its reception. Moreover, our appreciation may not realize the correct level(s) of highest relevant informational transfer through the lack of an adequate code or deficient recognition of more integrated levels of intentional manipulation. Lastly, the overall nature of the text as a con-text may not be appreciated and, thereby, approached accordingly in a relatively defective fashion through a mis-appreciation of its intended perspective(s) for viewing.
	What role then does provocation play in the transformational creation and communication of information?
	In asking the phenomenological question what is the harmony of harmony, or, in other words, what is the essence of harmony, I came to the conclusion using a gestalt model or metaphor, that harmony was the ongoing resolution of dissonance; the re-interaction between that under the focus of our attention and the field associated with that type of interpretive discrimination. Moreover, I perceived a relativity at play that established whether a certain item under consideration was either relatively dissonant or not dissonant, i.e., consonant. That generally that under focus, in becoming foreground, was essentially experienced as dissonant in that act of discrimination with the implication that its contrasting field was relatively consonant. That our attention is brought to focus on difference whereas through repetitive similarity a consonant field slips back into the background. That between these two polarities we have the process of resolution that keeps both aspects in some form of a relationship in order to establish such a contrast. Elsewhere, in other papers, I have argued that dissonance is experienced retrospectively and reductively, that field consonance is perceived prospectively and synthetically (in a process of reconstitutional re-simulation) and that the moment of resolution is perceived spontaneously in the present (in accordance with the degree of existential authenticity that is realized) in and through a state of transcendental suspension. That these three moments collectively characterize the structural-functioning of the hermeneutic circle, these moments being ideal and not temporally bound to occur in the order as just noted. That this circular dialectic is another metaphorical perspective to view this transformational process of informational transfer. By transformation is meant the structural-functional transitions in progress wherein an identity is in continual variation within the ambit of its general field identity, transformational disruption occurring when that field of consonance is itself disrupted necessitating a super-field of accommodation in order to contain that state of super-transformation. The transgression of a field resulting in complete destruction or degrees of slippage, irruptions in structural-meaning and functional-meaningfulness.
	Because all fields are themselves presented in super-fields of accommodation, etc., it follows that informational creation, transfer and re-simulation must be correctly located in the psychological hierarchy of the psyche in order to be correctly appreciated (from a level of more integrated, but related, psychic organization). That all meaning is essentially, in metaphorical terms of reference, disturbances in waves upon waves upon waves, etc.
	In unwrapping the meaning of this last metaphor, disturbances in waves upon waves upon waves, etc., we might like to note that information comes in unit packages of a certain size depending meta-textually on the hierarchical level of information being transmitted. E.g., a computer uses a binary code broken into sequences of 8 or 16 bits, etc. That even this information is structured along similar lines both beneath this level of informational enstructuralization and above it. 
	Moreover, the mere listing of elements is not going to assist us in this textual creation and transfer of information. E.g., consider the following list: 

	Over 1,000,000 demonstrators, 
	98 cities, 
	perhaps approximately 500 dead? 

	Now we might guess that this was a tentative description, in the form of a list, whose informational content was about the disturbances in China and the massacre in Beijing, 1989. We might have guessed that but still the text in itself, in this case, did not directly reveal it meta-textual status through some form of an embedded meta-textual comment to that effect. Sheer lists of information as a collective entity do not function informationally on that level until an appropriate meta-text is supplied and effectively in operation. At the same time the apparent informational status of each item in a list can only function in a similar fashion although usually in this regard we may have a general functioning of the language allowing those letters in the words, as in the above example, etc., to form apparently self-meaningful utterances in their own right. Still, the argument holds that only in the presence of an appropriate and adequate meta-text can information be apparently unambiguous in its textual creation and transmission.
	In the light of the above argument and the dictum "that text comments directly on text, and, that meta-text comments directly on meta-text" we should now ask how can the meta-text influence our reception of the text? Is this achievement performed indirectly, and, if so, how?
	Our Rule of Ratios is an indication that what is at work here, as in the transmission of all forms of information, is the role of transformational procedures. Essentially, a certain process in a certain related field has occurred such that the participants in that relationship have been subjected to a process of interactive change centered on a core process of transformational invariance. I.e., between the levels of the text and the meta-text transformational processes on one level are reflected on the other and v.v. This results in a net process of transformational invariance when examining the apparent interaction between these levels of textuality. This has been investigated in a number of papers under the titles of meta-transformational re-treatment processes, retreatment or just treatment. However, this topic is best examined elsewhere.
	In the light of this subject of provocation how are the provocative structures in a text to be marked out and how can the nature of their implicit provocative resolution also be followed?
	This primary hermeneutic task is more often than not conducted intuitively and successfully. Only difficulties in interpretation calling our attention to focus more deeply on this unstable sea, or soup, of meaning-meaningfulness creation/reception. As noted above, by implication, an explication of these structurally-functioned differentiations can be conducted in a sketched out format by deciding, at the level of the interpretational field adopted, as to what parts of the text in that light are relatively dissonant or consonant and what probable provocative pathways seem to be made present before a process of harmony can be allowed to go ahead through some form of accommodation or overwriting. The latter act of re-writing being brought into play in the case of a field-reversal in meaning, a state of disruption, displacement, irruption, deconstruction, radical shifts in expressiveness, etc.
	That, essentially, this process of interpretation is best conducted formally by marking out the metaphorical structural-functions in the text/metatext, or series of texts/metatexts, under examination, and, differentiating overt/covert levels of metaphorical manipulation when and where present.

Day 10: The Determination Of Style And Genre

	A text is able to convey information, or can be read in such a manner as to appear to be conveying information, by virtue of its perceived provocational treatment of dissonance. The collective appreciation of this apparent provocational treatment establishes the general perception of style. A text by virtue of its perception as a `text' must also possess some semblance of style even if the formation of that text is not well-formed, or, i.e, without a strong sense of style. 
	On the other hand a text is also perceived as a `text' by virtue of its meta-textual presentation and our general appreciation of this aspect of textuality constitutes our awareness of the most probable genre adopted in general terms of reference by that text. No text can be formulated without some degree of reference to a pre-established intertextual body of genre.

	On the subject of the determination of genre we need only note the results of our previous investigations into the determination of meta-textuality. Genre is essentially the adoption and adaptation of meta-textual conventional practices already at work in the literary environment of that author or authors. In other words an appreciation of the general, overall status of the meta-textuality at work in a text, or series of interrelated texts, through an inspection of the overall presentation of that text, or texts, and from a combination of other factors such as titles, meta-textual comments, etc. On the other hand style is determined from the manner dissonant aspects of the text are resolved within the ambit of that text with a direct reference to an intertextuality supplied by that text's meta-text. This apparent, intersubjective resolution of dissonance is `objectively' achieved in a transformational process through provocative mechanisms engineered by the text and controlled by the meta-text. Certain elements and aspects of the text are perceived, in the light of the meta-text, as relatively dissonant. Certain other sections, constituting the bulk of that text, through their perceived treatment as repetitive processes reproduce the semblance of an overall, relatively consonant background which, as a background, gives a distinctive contrast to the foreground focused upon as relatively dissonant. In between these polarities of foreground and background the resolution of the text is provocatively fashioned subjectively and intersubjectively. Relative, provisional intersubjectivity being achieved through the nature of provocation to be both relatively dissonant and revealing of probable and obvious pathways for the seemingly naturally-directed resolution of that dissonance. Resolution being achieved through processes of accommodation established on the grounds of transformational invariance, or, processes of overwriting that re-write accommodational territory in the new direction or perspective established in that process of displacement put in place through slippage, irruption, deconstructive re-organization, re-valuation, de-coding, etc., etc. 

Day 11: Provocative Reading(s) Of The Text 

	After having established a general appreciation of the genre, or genres, adopted and adapted by a text, or a series of texts, we can then establish a provocative reading of that text by marking key moments of provocation in the process of its unfolding. This process of textual unfolding in the reading of that text being treated metaphorically in both spatial and temporal terms of reference in accordance with the presentational nature of that text.

	Provocation is achieved in a text through the juxtaposition of different types of evocational structures and this occurs in a hierarchy pre-established meta-textually. The most important provocative structures for the reading of a text occurring near the top of this organizational hierarchy. However, if their are difficulties in marking and fixing the level of these relatively dissonant provocative structural-functions then they can be laboriously determined from the lowest levels and thereupon upwards. However, only in an adequate appreciation of the meta-text can this task be successfully performed assuming an adequate text, i.e., a text that is well-formed and adequately detailed within the ambit of a meta-text that is itself also well-formed and adequately detailed. E.g., a text might appear to have a readable presentation but our intuition may also tell us that there is perhaps a hidden agenda, or a coded message within its presentation, or a deeper level of meaning, or an implicit supplementary subtext, etc. Under such suspicion we may not be certain that we have correctly read that text on all its overt and covert levels of intended presentation. Correctly our readings of all thematic texts, and non-thematic texts too, should be treated as provisional in our interpretive programmes although pragmatic criteria will probably tell us most of the time that the reading of the text, if adequately well-formed and appropriately detailed, is `working for us'. Often a successful reading will also correct obvious errors in the transmission and reception of that text.
	Dissonant material in this meta-textual hierarchy is usually determined by marking all the evocative material presented on a certain level of reading currently under examination. Then dissonant material is further marked off by either noting material that is felt or judged to be relatively dissonant on that level, or, through noting those features or elements that are generally repetitive on that level, i.e., that material forming the relatively consonant background on that level of analysis. Only genre rules determine beforehand what is non-relatively dissonant or non-dissonant although such expected states of affairs must be adhered to in their correct, overall, unbalanced proportions in order to preserve this contrast between foreground and background. Provocational pathways can then be intuitively targeted through genre self-awareness in this regard or through processes of accommodation or overwriting suggested by that text in harmony with our aesthetic appreciation of that text. I.e., through invoking an aesthetic appreciation of that text in its transcendentally-treated interaction with our sense of subjectivity. 
	More likely, however, such a task through intuitive practice can be conducted in a sketched out form by letting the text declare those provocational features that convey various forms of value-added information, and v.v. By value-added information is meant taking into account the textual fact that all information is produced and re-produced in a value-field in accordance with the nature of its textual-metatextual constitution and perspective(s). A certain dimension of value always being imparted to the creation and reception of information production/re-production by virtue of the fact that information is imparted through provocational resolution and this is always created/re-created and experienced/re-experience in a meta-textually appropriate mix of transcendental fields but let me discuss this aspect of our investigations under another heading. The usefulness of an appreciation of value allowing us to home in more easily and more quickly and rediscover these provocational structural-functions allowing these structures to functions in the manner apparently intended.
	The perceived levels and informational density of information imparted is a direct measure the text is allowed to speak to us in this regard and this is facilitated in and through an appreciation of the metaphorical structural-functions operating either meta-textually or both meta-textually and textually. Moreover, an appreciation of these covert, or, covert and overt, metaphorical processes allows us to enlarge our appreciation of the relationship between meta-text and text, and, the parallel relationship between genre and style. Hence the central importance of a critically conducted auto-textual appreciation of metaphor produced and re-produced in the presentation of a text or series of interrelated texts!

	Style is informative, information in a text necessitates the centrally placed provocative presence of style. How is the style of a text determined?

	Style is determined through an appreciation of the general use of provocational structures in a text. For a text to be informative, or for a text to have the intention of being informative, it must possess provocative structures. Therefore an informative text must possess some degree of style even if stylistically that sense of style is without `style' in the more usual use of that term.
	Provocation is realized through the juxtaposition of evocational structures in such a manner that is experienced as relatively dissonant, and, in such a manner that that dissonance suggests its own possible pathways for the resolution of that dissonance. Resolution is realized through some form of an accommodational process. In this type of process there is a reconnection of the relatively dissonant material, as a background, with the relatively consonant material which forms a background field of context. In textual terms of reference the generally repetitive nature of much of the material of a text, what ever that be, lets the overall body of that text, as a con-text, form the grounds for the gestalt contrast the introduction of relatively dissonant material will have when inserted into that text. Resolution of this state of provocative dissonance being realized in higher terms of reference that seek some form of accommodation between the nature of the dissonance and the nature of that consonant field. Accommodation can also be realized in a process of over-writing wherein the accommodational text is re-written. E.g., in some forms of humour a counter-text re-writes the meaning of the initial interpretation of that text. Other forms of re-writing could include erasure, under-writing, displacement, re-interpretation, de-coding, etc.
	All particular texts in their formation, and reading, assume the appropriation of a genre, or a mix of genres, along with some degree of individualized re-writing of that genre or mix of genres. This process of re-formation is usually in keeping with the intentions that promote the process of its formation (i.e., interpretation) and/or the process of its reading (i.e., re-interpretation). Pragmatic criteria then inform us if we are successfully using a suitable genre, or mix of genres, in the formation of that text or in its reading through an informative re-formation.
	Styles, therefore, must bear some degree of resemblance to the genres adopted and the manner in which they are de-formed or re-formed. Those conventions adopted implicitly or explicitly forming the meta-text associated with that text.
	Evocational material is the detail supplied to that text and either names, describes or metaphorically analogues its intentional content (or manipulates that content on a meta-textual level). Provocative juxtaposition of that material has an intensity depending on the degree of relative dissonance introduced into that text, i.e., the degree of contrast developed within that text along gestalt lines between the foregrounding of the dissonance and the backgrounding of the relatively consonant evocational material. That intensity of dissonance in provocational resolution realizes a certain changing, and overall, degree of satisfaction equal to the degree of ongoing resolution realized. The degree of evocational material in the text being equal to its density. Density being either relevant and appropriate or irrelevant and/or not appropriate to the ongoing formation of that text, i.e., being either essential or inessential respectively.
	In our formalized appreciation of the provocative style of a text in our appreciation of its aesthetic or pragmatic realization of `style', in the more usual sense of this term, we ask ourselves whether the text, or the series of texts, under examination is/are well-formed and well-detailed? In other words we investigate the intensity, the satisfaction, and, the essential density of that text in its re-interpretation. Aesthetic appreciation determining the harmony of these factors, i.e, the degree to which the text is both well-formed and well-detailed. Pragmatical appreciation investigating the manner in which the text is found to demonstrate a certain degree of utility.
	Other forms of `style' in terms of value being determined in the light of the value structures apparently intended in that text, i.e., ethical, identificational (thematical), factual (ontical), interpretive (trans-thematical), and, specific or diffuse combinations of these same six fields. Combinations of these fields realizing scientific, cultural and hermeneutical forms of value. Religious forms of value talking the practical application of attitudes taken towards this type of schema in its entirety.
	That, generally, style can be determined in conjunction with the adoption of genre(s) appropriated, the manner such appropriation is re-appropriated, and, the manner and the satisfaction realized in how that process of provocative resolution is achieved. Our investigation of this process of provocative resolution examining essential forms of density, intensity and satisfaction. Note, however, that because experience has a non-verbal form this process of stylistic appreciation cannot be realized in a completely formalized manner.
	That, overall, the sense of genre is meta-textually driven, and, the ongoing unfolding of provocative style is textually exhibited.

Day 12: Evaluation Of Implicated Value

	The presence of provocational structural-functions in an informative text implies the distinctive generation of value structural-functions in that text. How is such an aspect in the text evaluated?

	An exposition on the determination of value structures in a text necessitates the following abbreviated digression.
	Value is used as a technical term dealing with value expressed in our archetypal phenomenology when there is a suppression of the influence of one or two poles in this tri-modal schema and a consequent emphasis on the relationship between two or one of those poles respectively.
	E.g., when intentional object-states are related among themselves we realize and release, in my understanding, a certain degree, and form, of thematic value, i.e., considerations of identity, quantity, quality and other types of relation. Hence the derivation of nominatives, descriptions, analogical processes and various types of cognitive operation and manipulation in various fields, e.g., mathematical, perceptual, conceptual, etc.
	E.g., aesthetic value is realized and released when an intentional object-state enters into an equally emphasized relationship with an intentional subject or subjects, i.e., a transcendental ego or a set of transcendental egos. 
	E.g., ethic(al) value is realized and released when a certain specified or unspecified number of transcendental egos enters into a more or less equally emphasized relationship with another set of transcendental egos, or, some other partial aspect of the same.
	E.g., pragmatic value is realized and released when a certain specified or unspecified number of transcendental egos enter into a more or less equally emphasized relationship with a certain field or fields, such judgment producing a determination of utility.
	E.g., trans-thematic(al) or hermeneutic value is realized and released when an intentional field, or a set of intentional fields, is allowed to interact with the same or a different set of intentional fields. This type of value recognizing the degree of commensuration achieved between those fields.
	E.g., factual (or ontical) value is realized historically,  or in potential terms of reference, when a certain set of intentional object-states enters into an equally emphasized relationship with a certain set of intentional fields. 
	Through this relativity of suppression and dominance between the three archetypal polarizations of Object, Ego and World arises all forms of thematic, aesthetic, ethic, pragmatic, trans-thematic and factual value. All other forms of value arising, in my understanding, from various combinations of these three polarities.
	An appreciation, or evaluation, of the value discovered in a text, or situation with intentional involvement, arises from a transcendental reading of the formation, or re-formation, of those value structural-functions discovered, or re-covered, in that presentation. By transcendental is meant trans-intentional, trans-cognitive and trans-constitutional appreciation of non-transcendental forms of cognitivity. By cognitive is meant intellectual processes of a perceptual/conceptual interaction or autonomy. Because this special, complex sense of the transcendental is generated from a trans-cognitive reading of the cognitive translation of the situation under examination it follows that that no pure state of transcendental expression can be either realized or appreciated. As transcendental experience is realized in a state of judgment `that to be judged' is a necessary precondition for that act of judgment to arise in the first place. However, from a transcendental point of view, the transcendental reading of certain cognitive state of affairs is distinctive and is to be critical discriminated in provisional terms of reference subject to this accommodation naturally reached in a state of judgment between the Cognitive and the Transcendental (as the Judgmental).
	As argued elsewhere, in other papers, this general sense of transcendental value is realized in, and released back into, a state of transcendental suspension within the cognitively dominated confines of the transcendental-hermeneutical-phenomenological circle consisting of the three ideal moments of transcendental suspension, transcendental reduction (analysis) and transcendental reconstitution (synthesis).
	The determination of the kind of value that functions structurally in that text, and the degree of prominence and/or centrally it appears to possess, we need to match a general meta-textual appreciation with a specific, pre-determined textual appreciation of that text. We look at the general presentation of that text and also observe how it appears to function, i.e., in our schematized appreciation of that text we observe in which aspect or aspects of our schema we observe the maximum delivery of provocative informational flow. E.g., if our text appears to have more information to deliver along ethical lines then we must assume, provisionally at first, that our text is concerned with such matters, namely, with considerations of an ethical nature, etc. Similarly, the psychological centering of the text can also be observed. E.g., with respect to the previous example of a text concerned with an apparent ethical dimension we might like to ask if our reading appears, overall, to be a transcendental reading or a cognitive reading or merely an emotional-affective reading in the field of connotations, impressions, mood, etc., in response to certain ethical or unethical-like situations, etc. Although a text may con-textually demonstrate its apparent meta-textual status, correctly, only an active working appreciation of that text is going to assist us in a closer reading of the same. To be noted, however, that this specialized sense of a transcendental reading does not of itself deliver up to us an absolute, or more correctly an absolutisitic, reading of that text. Such a transcendental reading, essentially, is determined through a properly conducted close inspection of the covert/overt metaphorical structural-functions apparently at work in that text and this will be examined more closely elsewhere. By properly conducted is implied that our reading is conducted through the correct application of our three transcendental moments, i.e., transcendental suspension, etc. By correct is also implied that the text itself will spontaneously supply, in a text that is textually and meta-textually well-formed and well-detailed, its own ongoing transcendental correction of our reading as we progress `through' that text or series of texts, continually re-defining our appropriations of that text. But this must be discussed elsewhere