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Affective criticism would also be able to critique Paradise because it shares the idea of "indeterminacy" which may be a question that Sollers raises. It is significant that Harry Mathews insists that the reader is the real creator instead of the writer, for the reader lets the book exist once again. Everything that Affective criticism stands for is to make the reader more involved with the text. Wolfgang Iser says "Communication it literature, then, is a process set in motion and regulated, not by a given code, but by a mutually restrictive and magnifying interaction between the explicit and the implicit, between revelation and concealment." Some of the problems with an Affective reading are that we bring to much of ourselves, our psychology, to make words mean. Would a book be different if one was tired, happy, or angry? Derrida and Sollers would be against anyone who interjects themselves in the narrative, in the chaos of play, rather than letting a system (text) play out its wishes on the reader. To read a passage like this one by Sollers, one must give up their self-identity for the moment.