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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Roland Barthes
Publisher: Hill and Wang

(A Lover's Discourse: Fragments). Barthes calls them "figures" -- gestures of the lover at work. Yet, within this infantile embrace, the genital unfailingly appears … the logic of desire begins to function, the will-to-possess returns, the adult is superimposed upon the child. "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments". From p73 of A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (ISBN 0099437422) by Roland Barthes. In A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes compiles a (non-exhaustive) list of "fragments" pertaining to the discourse oflovers. I rub my language against the other. It is if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. I am not so unique in my affinity for that one or “The Pleasure of the Text”. The resistance of the wood varies depending on the place where we drive the nail: wood is not isotropic. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, by Roland Barthes. It's a very sharp, philosophical analysis of how being in love turns you into a total idiot. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments.