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With regard to the interaction between text and reader, a chaotic text may deliberately highlight the dynamics of the reading process. Often, it demonstrates these dynamics within the text itself, featuring a metanarrative and characters engaged in interpretation—or misinterpretation—of it. A chaotic narrative may commit metaleptic transgressions by crossing the boundary between narrative level: for example, between the world of the text and the world of the reader, as when “author” Tristram surmises “his” reader’s thoughts. Metanarrative structure and metaleptic transgressions illuminate how a text’s meaning emerges from the interaction of text and reader.