La incertidumbre de la lectora (On loving a demon)

“There are in the reading process (…) two desires in play: on the one hand the desire of the fictional figure within the text, and on the other the desire of the reader. What the stories of demon lovers suggest is that the desire defined in the fiction cannot be met by a mortal lover, because in the end desire is not of the other, but of the Other, and its gratification is both forbidden and imposible. The desire of the reader, however, is permitted. Metaphysical reading promises the gratificcation of truth unveiled, the meaning of the text, closure. But the regime of truth is characterized by loss: finite meaning (..) The alternative is to seek out the pleasures of the trompe-l’oeil, which permits us to shift between incommesurable knowledges without finality, or fear of retaliation. This mode of reading postpones closure. Instead, it acknowledges all that is elusive and enigmatic in the work, and sustains desire by privileging whatever is critically unmastered, textually demonic.’
Catherine Belsey, "Desire".

Reading is living, says the wheel of wisdom.