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 good fiction, are potentially polysemic and subject to an endless existential
 hermeneutics as are the lived experiences they try to recreate imaginatively.
-The truth of such fiction can only be regarded in the plural: truths. Thus, Hemingway initiates a dialogue with all of his potential reader writers, to which they can respond emotionally, cognitively, and even actively pursue either by imitation or under the enchantment of influence. “Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it,” he said in “The Art of Fiction,” an interview with George Plimpton. “Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.”{{sfn|Plimpton|1965|p=229|id=Hemingway1965}} It would be hard to find a keener or more accurate description of existential hermeneutic activities and modes of recreating and making a text your own.
+The truth of such fiction can only be regarded in the plural: truths. Thus, Hemingway initiates a dialogue with all of his potential reader writers, to which they can respond emotionally, cognitively, and even actively pursue either by imitation or under the enchantment of influence. “Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it,” he said in “The Art of Fiction,” an interview with George Plimpton. “Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.”{{sfn|Hemingway|1965|p=229|id=Hemingway1965}} It would be hard to find a keener or more accurate description of existential hermeneutic activities and modes of recreating and making a text your own.
 To sum up: the combined agencies of three phenomenological operations in the act of reading make it possible for any reader of Hemingway to read{{pg|166|167}}