 Gadamer describes the expansion of our horizons as a “fusion of horizons” (Gadamer, Truth and Method, 306). This term is perhaps misleading, however, because it can be mistaken to signify that an interpreter has a distinct ‘horizon’ that is then expanded through the assimilation of another distinct horizon, say, that of a text we are interpreting. Really, though, what Gadamer means is that in interpretive experience, our attempts to understand can and should lead us to recognize that our own horizon is not as insular or narrow as we first thought. Rather, we can and should come to recognize that our horizon belongs to a larger context of the historical transmission of meaning, so that when we come to understand something, we are thereby raised “to a higher level of universality that overcomes not only our own particularity but also that of the other” (Gadamer, Truth and Method, 305). In this, ‘fusion’ signifies something closer to the verbal form of Gadamer’s Verschmelzung, that is verschmeltzen, to melt together. We expand our horizons through interpretive experience that melts away at the rigidity of our horizon, so that we can see how it melts into and mixes with a larger movement of transmission.