Of course this is always an illusion in a literary text, produced by a great deal of contrivance and rewriting.
Humanists were working with something variable and contingent: the way a text produced meaning for a given group of readers.
As a result, they will encounter text produced not by its author but by a vast community of the opinionated.
I nearly burst out laughing when a mention of dogs howling in the text produced the sound of dogs barking offstage (not man-made but digital, a cop-out even in Mitchell's own terms).
A draft negotiating text produced before the meeting has swollen in size to an unmanageable several hundred pages, as countries scrambled to get their views included before this month's deadline.
Measures of user satisfaction, quantity of text produced, and quality of writing produced, were taken.
Generation features are about the amount of text produced by students.
Those who read the linear, traditional text produced better recall scores than those who read the hypertexts.
The old methods of creating speech from text produced the familiar but stilted voices we're all familiar with from the last decade or two.
