Starring the Star (8)

*ACT. "traces": Commentator's action of tracing through the text. Just like the soothsayer that consults the imaginary rectangle he draws. Furthermore, the imaginary rectangle the soothsayer draws around each segment of the sky represents the different lexias of the original text that the commentator splits the text into, "observe": Just like the soothsayer who consults the imaginary rectangle, the commentator observes the text. **SEM. "migration, outcropping, passage": Reminiscent of the "flight of birds" in the previous lexia. Connotation of freedom and a logical order of events. ***SYM. Mobile characteristic of meanings and codes represented through a simile of codes and meanings as free birds. ****SYM. Once again, there is natural imagery. In this case, it is natural organisms, birds, that are used to describe meaning and the ability of starring a text to use these natural organisms and their patterns to find meaning.

*&**&***REF. "Commentator": A person who reads a text and responds to aspects of it, "Simile": Comparative literary technique that incorporates the word "as" or "like", "codes": Normally, codes refer to rules that convert one piece of information into another. Barthes, however takes a different approach.