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93 exerCIses and QuIz ten Retrieved from https://www .fickr.com/x/t/0090009/photos/ mastababa/2354567815/. Retrieved from https://www .fickr.com/x/t/0099009/photos/ mstabbycat/3127520409/. textual InterPretatIon Here are three images of signs I found on the web. A fourth image, which was protected by copyright, showed pedestrians walking a street with a sign in the foreground that read, “GO SLOW: ACCIDENT PORN AREA.” You may choose any one you want for this chapter’s quiz. The others may be used as practice exercises. The directions for the quiz and the practice exercises are all the same. What is the sign saying—what does it mean? Defend your interpretation of the sign using the tools we have developed in this chapter. The fun, I believe, will be in coming up with your rival explanations. 5 Jones, 74. Notes 6 Jones, 102–3. 1 E. D. Hirsch, “In Defense of the Author,” Validity in 7 Jones, 103. Interpretation (NewHaven, CT: Yale University Press, 8 Jones, 103. 1967), 1. 9 A. B. Shaw, “Depressive Illness Delayed Hamlet’s 2 Stanley Fish, IsTere a Text inTis Class? (Cambridge, Revenge,” Medical Humanities 28, no. 2 (2002): 92–96. MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), 274–75. 10 Shaw, 92. 3 E. Jones, “Te Oedipus-Complex as an Explanation 11 Shaw, 92. of Hamlet’s Mystery: A Study in Motive,” American 12 Shaw, 92. Journal of Psychology 21, no. 1 (1910): 75. 13 Shaw, 93. 4 Jones, 74.