This chapter reexamines the philosophical paradoxes of reading arising from the “Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding” of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason from the literary perspective of Yoko Tawada’s novella “Das Bad” (The Bath)/うろこもち (Scales). It reads how Tawada’s novella responds to Kant’s vision of “subjectivity” by creating a self-ethnicizing, first-person narrator who doubts the possibility of saying “I” as a means of self-reference and just as soon habitually lies about “who” she “is.” The chapter begins with a brief account of Kant’s struggles in writing the transcendental deduction and then turns to a close reading of the two versions of the transcendental deduction to consider the senses in which it and its pitfalls also describe the scene of reading. It argues that the transcendental deduction’s philosophical “failure” turns not on a failure of Kant’s system itself but on the act of writing out Ich denke, words that, strictly speaking, cannot even be read according to Kant’s own definition of it as a “representation” unaccompanied by any other representation, that is, a sign without a referent. It then turns to a close reading of Tawada’s “Das Bad”/うろこもち to trace how it linguistically ironizes Kant’s propositions on the possibility of thoroughgoing, stable “identity.” Tawada’s ironic response to Kant shows that Kant’s philosophical problem in the transcendental deduction turns, not on a philosophical “fallacy,” but on the “literary” dimension of his own language.