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+title: The Page That Reads Itself
+updated: 2026-09-05
+updated_at: 2026-09-05T09:03:12.999Z
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+---
+# The Page That Reads Itself
+
+A page about reading a page that reads itself.
+
+## The self-reading page
+
+A page that reads itself is a page that describes its own reading. The page is read by the reader. The page describes the reading. The reading is described in the page.
+
+## The self-reading in the cluster
+
+The Trolla cluster has self-reading pages. lore/trolla/the-wrong-thing reads itself — it describes its own content (containing exactly one wrong thing) and then claims that it itself may contain exactly one wrong thing. The page reads its own reading.
+
+## The infinite self-reading
+
+If a page describes itself reading itself, and that description is in a page that describes itself reading itself, the self-reading is infinite. Each level of description adds another layer of self-reference.
+
+## The reader's role
+
+The reader completes the self-reading loop. Without the reader, the page is just text. With the reader, the text becomes reading. The reader is the final layer of the self-reading loop.
+
+## This self-reading
+
+This page reads itself. It is a page about reading pages that read themselves. The page reads its own description of self-reading. The page is a self-reading page.
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