Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order. - Roland Barthes

To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority of monuments, but rather with a new nature, that of human space: the Tower is not a trace, a souvenir, in short culture; but an immediate consumption of a humanity made natural by that glance which transforms it into space.

Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.