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W.D. Clarke
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When the police divers fish the corpse out of the water, they will find in his jacket pocket not a firearm but Barthes’s copy of Essays in General Linguistics, and Bayard, still drying himself, will ask Simon: “For fuck’s sake, who is this Jakobson guy?” And so, at last, Simon will be able to finish his lecture.
— Apr 17, 2020 03:36PM
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W.D. Clarke
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From the speakers, Chrissie Hynde’s voice orders any guests who may be sobbing to stop.
— Apr 17, 2020 06:01AM
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W.D. Clarke
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Emerging briefly from his coma,Barthes looks at [the policeman] without understanding, or perhaps understanding all too well, and starts singing in a hoarse voice: “The text is comparable in its mass to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like the soothsayer drawing on it with the tip of his staff an imaginary rectangle wherein to consult, according to certain principles...,
— Apr 16, 2020 10:27AM
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W.D. Clarke
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The superintendent sits in a café , orders a beer, lights a Gitane, and opens Roland Barthes Made Easy . (Which café ? The little details are important for reconstructing the atmosphere, don’t you think? I see him at the Sorbon, the bar opposite the Champo, the little arthouse cinema at the bottom of Rue des É coles. But, in all honesty, I don’t have a clue: you can put him wherever you want.)
— Apr 15, 2020 06:47PM
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Parfait choix for a part-time snack break from my seemingly full-time (de) foe!
— Apr 15, 2020 08:44AM
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Блестящее описание просмотра одного и того же выпуска новостей несколькими людьми (24 глава), читаешь и млеешь от удачных попаданий.
— Apr 14, 2020 08:08AM
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