"The Death of the Author" Response

"The true locus of writig is reading."  This excerpt tears down the credits of the author saying that all texts are copied, that "the text is a tissue of citations...the writer can only imitate a gesture forever anterio, never original; his only power is to combine the different kinds of writing..."  Roland Barthes makes the claim that, "the birth of the reader must be rasomed by the death of the Author."  A text is said to consists of multiple writings, issuing from several cultures enetering into dialogue with one another.  The only way that al the text can be simplified, collected, and united is not within the author but the reader.  "The unity of a text is not in its origin, it is in its destination, " and that destination is the reader who is the only one that holds the apathy to gather all the informaion into a single field of which the text is constituted.  I agree with this author to a certain extent.  However, the text a reader absorbs is implemented by the author; therefore, the reader is only an extention of the author.