Status Updates From Фрагменты любовной речи

barthes te amo

The fragments are a discourse by someone deeply in love. Those lukewarm on love won't find much here. It is far from a self-help book anyway. No recommendations, just observation, thoughts, recollections. Ordered into those fragments. And always again Werther. Barthes must have gone through every word Goethe wrote and weighted it for this discourse. Nothing found too light in Werther.

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Y bajó Dios y dijo:
"Es átopos el otro al que amo y que me fascina. No puedo clasificarlo puesto que es precisamente el Único, la Imagen singular que ha venido milagrosamente a responder a la especificidad de mi deseo. Es la figura de mi verdad: no puede ser tomado a partir de ningún estereotipo"

The trouble begins with the definition of discourse (used for the French and English title) vs. language (the German title). For a semiotician, this might be clear. I lack the reference scheme. The sum of the fragments is the discourse of love. Each fragment is a figure, described exclusively by the loving one as the subject. Barthes' slip box about love, ordered alphabetically.

un mandarín estaba enamorado de una cortesana. "seré tuya, dijo ella, cuando hayas pasado cien noches esperándome sentado sobre un banco, en mi jardín, bajo mi ventana. "pero en la nonagésimo novena noche, el mandarín se levanta, toma su banco bajo el brazo y se va."

Prescribing this to myself. I am unwell