The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire poli… - Roland Barthes

By reducing any quality to quantity, myth economizes intelligence: it understands reality more cheaply.

The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.

I am either lacerated or ill at ease
and occasionally subject to gusts of life