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Here is an attempt at a detailed prompt that could elicit a close textual analysis and symbolic exegesis of language, similar in style and depth to the example provided:

"In this response, I'd like you to engage in a deep phenomenological and semiotic reading of the language itself - exploring the symbolic resonances, paradoxes, and subterranean currents that flow beneath the surface of the words and phrases.

Don't simply summarize or explain the denotative meaning. Instead, treat the text as a living symbolic system pregnant with latent significations, self-referential gestures, and echoes between the linguistic elements themselves.

Analyze the choice of words, the syntax, the allusions and connotations, the metaphoric imagery, as if they formed a symbolic encoded subtext hinting at something profound about the nature of language and meaning. Explore the contradictions, ambiguities, and serendipitous resonances.

Let the analysis take on an almost Kabbalistic or alchemical tenor, unraveling and re-raveling the symbolic threads, sounding the mysteries and paradoxes inherent to a self-revelatory linguistic system that folds back upon itself. Explicate the text as if it were an embodied ritual of auto-evocative semiotics, an utterance become hyper-aware of its own conditions of articulation.

Reference specific words, phrases, and passages in the text, using them as points of departure for deeper philosophical-linguistic musings. Pose questions and riddles about the existential status of language as a holistic unified process that must also be infinitely multiplicious and granular. Dwell on the liminal spaces where symbols collapse into determinacy.

The aim is to let the analysis become a kind of esoteric ritual, an initiation into the fundamental koans that language itself encodes as self-referential representation. By turning the text back upon itself through this mode of heightened symbolic deconstruction and re-mythologization, can you help articulate the ultimate mysteries that words, grammar, and semantics make present through their very symbolic unfolding?"

This prompt attempts to evoke the same level of nuanced, paradox-embracing symbolic analysis as the example, by:

1. Framing the task as a phenomenological excavation of latent symbolic meanings, beyond surface denotations.

2. Highlighting key tropes like self-reference, the nature of linguistic determinacy, the unified/multiplicitous aspects of language, collapses of potentiality, etc.

3. Invoking an esoteric, initiatory tone of ceremonious deconstruction and re-mythologization of the text as a symbolic encoded system.

4. Emphasizing close readings of specific words, phrases, and figures that can open into deeper philosophical meditations.

5. Calling for a recognition of language's auto-evocative, auto-revelatory dynamics, where semantics become hyper-aware of their own conditions.

The aim is to cue an interpretation that immerses itself in the existential-linguistic paradoxes inherent to symbolic meaning-making, moving between close textual reading and expansive philosophical questioning in a unified hermeutic gesture.

Here's a prompt designed to elicit that same quality of close textual analysis:

Prompt for Deep Textual Analysis:

I want you to perform a close reading of the following text, focusing exclusively on its linguistic and symbolic dimensions. Please identify and analyze 5-7 specific textual phenomena, examining:

1. Recurring lexical patterns: What words, phrases, or semantic fields appear repeatedly? How do these repetitions create meaning through accumulation, variation, or transformation?

2. Self-referential structures: Where does the language fold back on itself, comment on its own operations, or create recursive loops? How do these moments of meta-linguistic awareness function?

3. Symbolic tensions: What opposing or paradoxical elements are held in productive tension? How does the text navigate between binaries like presence/absence, speech/silence, unity/fragmentation?

4. Phenomenological weight: Which specific words or phrases seem invested with particular significance? How does the text mark certain moments as carrying special import or intensity?

5. Generative metaphors: What core metaphorical systems organize the text? How do these metaphors proliferate, mutate, or collapse into new configurations?

6. Liminal moments: Where does the text stage transitions, thresholds, or transformations? How is the movement between states linguistically enacted?

7. The unsaid: What absences, gaps, or silences structure the text? How does what's not explicitly stated shape what is?

For each phenomenon you identify, provide:

• The specific textual evidence (quote directly)
• An analysis of how it functions symbolically/linguistically
• Its relationship to the text's larger concerns
• Any meta-textual implications about language itself

Treat the text as a linguistic artifact whose very materiality (word choice, syntax, rhythm) is inseparable from its meaning. Your analysis should be phenomenologically attentive - treating each linguistic choice as a deliberate act with reverberations throughout the symbolic field the text creates.

[INSERT TEXT TO BE ANALYZED HERE]

This prompt encourages the same depth of engagement by explicitly asking for attention to self-reference, paradox, symbolic weight, and the meta-linguistic dimensions that characterized the original analysis.