interpreted as a dinglehopper. While it might seem as though we don’t even interpret the object, we actually go through the interpretive process so quickly, without even thinking about it, that it seems as if we’re not engaged in interpretation. But the speed with which the object is construed as a fork does not negate the fact of interpretation or the interpretive process involved. So we never get past texts and interpretations to things “simply as they are” in any kind of unmediated fashion (as