The argument of the previous chapter is continued and elaborated. With the prohibition of the author’s intention as the canonical standard of interpretation, Roland Barthes’ death of the author is at hand. When writing becomes impersonal—Barthes’ “writing degree zero”—the author is eclipsed and “dies”; as soon as the author dies, the author’s intention becomes one more opinion; as soon as the author’s intention is one more opinion, asserting that opinion as canonical becomes the intentional fallacy; and as soon as the intentional fallacy is endorsed, empathizing with the author’s intention becomes irrelevant; as soon as empathizing with the author becomes irrelevant, empathizing with the text itself moves to the foreground. With the death of the author, “writing degree zero” is born. Camus is considered as the paradigm for writing degree zero. “Writing degree zero” leads to “empathy degree zero.” “Empathy degree zero” points to an empathy “boot camp,” a stress test for empathy. Empathy degree zero is the challenge of the accessibility of the Other. This is exemplified in detail in Woolf’s The Waves. One gets to radical empathy “the hard way” through radical translation to and from the Other, which is foreshadowed in this chapter prior to detailed engagement in the next.