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[toxic spade]

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<interpretation>

[proper atlas]

i absolutely did not understand the sentence, what the fuck is that

[pastel spade]

lol

[proper atlas]

but

"il se dise" refers to the reader

i think "à ce qu'à le lire" is an old way to say "en le lisant"

[pastel spade]

I see

what does "il se dise" refers to the reader mean?

[proper atlas]

that "il" is the reader ("lecteur")

you said "il se dit que", in this case "il" doesn't refer to anything, it's impersonal like in "il y a"

so it can't be a good interpretation for this part

[pastel spade]

i think il is Poe

and lui = lecteur

[proper atlas]

chat gpt says this

but we'll never know if it's 100% accurate

[pastel spade]

merci

Is this interpretation that the sentence uses inversion correct?

[proper atlas]

no i don't think there is any inversion here

just weird (old) structures

[pastel spade]

but
Doesn’t ‘n'être pas plus feint que la vérité quand elle habite la fiction’ need a subject?

[proper atlas]

it's indicatif so there's no subject

il se dise n'être pas [...] = il se dise qu'il n'est pas

[pastel spade]

i see

[proper atlas]

do you read this on your own or for school? it look very hard for a beginner

[pastel spade]

This is a philosophy book that I read as a hobby.

I have understanding of the text
Merci beaucoup

I’m managing to read it with the help of English translations as well