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Toys are—chords; we walk on the chords: by means of the chords we enter: into the mysterious rooms of meaning.
•Andrei Bely, Kotik Letaev (1916).

Saussure’s bête noir was the arbitrary (nature of the sign).
•Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes (1975).

The world hadn’t ever had so many moving parts or so few labels.
•William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).

We cannot learn the message of a symbol with a merely passive and receptive mind, because it is of the genius...