Barthes' became an expert in finding, manipulating and exploiting theories and concepts of how things come to mean. Barthes died in 1980 in a car accident outside of Paris. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Keith Mohler, 1994. The photographic image. What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.