Roland Barthes Quotes

Meanings Can Indeed Be Forgotten, But Only If We Have Chosen To Bring To Bear Upon The Text A Singular Scrutiny. Yet Reading Does Not Consist In Stopping The Chain Of Systems, In Establishing A Truth, A Legality Of The Text, And Consequently In Leading Its Reader Into "errors"; It Consists In Coupling These Systems, Not According To Their Finite Quantity, But According To Their Plurality (which Is A Being, Not A Discounting): I Pass, I Intersect, I Articulate, I Release, I Do Not Count. Forgetting Meanings Is Not A Matter For Excuses, An Unfortunate Defect In Performance; It Is An Affirmative Value, A Way Of Asserting The Irresponsibility Of The Text, The Pluralism Of Systems (if I Closed Their List, I Would Inevitably Reconstitute A Singular, Theological Meaning): It Is Precisely Because I Forget That I Read.

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