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Even without knowledge of semiotics, the reader of Daniel Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe easily grasps the hero’s excitement at discovering a footprint on a deserted beach, a scenario wherein a human subject perceives a mark as a clue, the appearance of which clearly indicates a relationship of ...