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To read is to cross the boundaries of the self, to give oneself up to the other in an act of participation. Reading is part of the process where truth comes to unveil itself on the ontic plane. In reading it is more important to experience the inexpressible than to express it. To read means to test reality as a text. This summarizes the main points of the article. Reading thus understood iscontrasted here with the practice of interpretation, which ever more often discovers its own theoretical insufficiency.