I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.Umberto Eco
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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