A Lover's Discourse. Xiaolu Guo

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      From A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes. Published by Jonathan Cape Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited © Roland Barthes 1979. From Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes. Copyright © Skira., 1970. Translation Copyright © Farrar Strauss and Giroux. First published in Great Britain in 1983 by Jonathan Cape. Reprined by permission of The Random House Group Limited.

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      Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

      —Fragments d’un discours amoureux,

      Roland Barthes