the voluptuous release of the letter
"We can imagine a typology of the pleasures of reading.... The obsessive would experience the voluptuous release of the letter, of secondary, disconnected languages, of metalanguages (this class would include all the logophiles, linguists, semioticians, philologists: all those for whom language returns)." —Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
photograph © Stephanie Fysh 2005; all rights reserved
the voluptuous release of the letter
"We can imagine a typology of the pleasures of reading.... The obsessive would experience the voluptuous release of the letter, of secondary, disconnected languages, of metalanguages (this class would include all the logophiles, linguists, semioticians, philologists: all those for whom language returns)." —Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
photograph © Stephanie Fysh 2005; all rights reserved