 Hamann’s skepticism about neutrality and objectivity does not make him a ‘subjectivist’, however. The stance and disposition of the interpreter is integral, helpful, indeed, indispensable and must be acknowledged; but limitless subjectivity arouses Hamann’s scorn. Those who ‘flood the text’ with glosses and marginalia, “dreaming up one’s own inspiration and interpretation,” Hamann likens to the blind leading the blind (N II, 208:3ff).