The text speculates on its own death in that it will cease to be understood. It is an elusive movement out of the corner of my eye I try and grasp. I hold up Joanna Russ as an example. She seem to desire to create a more realistic portrayal of woman, and thus she creates her four women. The writing begins and does expand out, like a snowball out of control.
Authors have as much power as readers have sensuality.
More interesting to the detatched observer, but not to either one of the texts, which will remain frozen, or the organisms, whose perceptions and beliefs are more resultant of historical developments than the present drama, whose implications may be realized in the future, if at all. This idea of a pen name is interesting, although I would assume that what Russ is aiming towards is a complete destruction of this behavior - since it was most women writers who had to depend on it. We can think of 'free play' as a kind of game wherein the purpose of the game is to keep playing. A closed game might be something like Monopoly, where the the point of playing is to win. With free play, though, rules and limits cease to apply.