into a “mirror for narcissistic self-reflection”?28 Though such questions constrain reader-centered meanings, they need not invalidate the orientation. After all, readers endure.29 . Articulation of meaning offers many possibilities for author, text, and reader. Some critics find this situation untenable. A single meaning ought to prevail, and yet it does not. Other critics find the more meanings the better. Potential chaos seems not to matter. The rhetorical criticism developed here works