#a lovers discourse

[soracities]

Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (trans. Richard Howard) [transcript in ALT]

[patroklous]

1. Melancholy, Edvard Munch / 2. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, Roland Barthes / 3. Separation, Edvard Munch / 4. untitled poem by Priest Sosei / 5. Encounter on the Beach, Edvard Munch / 6. In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust

[mdamebovary]

[fawnaura]

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.

Roland Barthes, from A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, tr. Richard Howard

[grapelavender]

Roland Barthes on Tenderness (and the humbling nature of reciprocity)

[opheliashes]

On Love, Devotion, and Waiting 

((A Lover’s Discourse, Roland Barthes // Right Where You Left Me, Taylor Swift // Wait for Me (Reprise), Hadestown // Cosmic Love, Florence + the Machine // I Will Wait, Mumford & Sons // Persuasion, Jane Austen // A Thousand Years, Christina Perri))

[sol-psych]

reverberation / a lover’s discourse: fragments, roland barthes (1978)

[xaltion]

Either woe or well-being, sometimes I have a craving to be engulfed.