in my imagination

“the unique being” and extinction

Rereading: Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/26/roland-barthes-camera-lucida-rereading

…”as Michael Wood has argued, he was throughout his career a writer who engaged head and heart at the same time.”

…The last manuscript on which he worked (an essay on Stendhal, left on his desk on the day of the accident) had been entitled “One Always Fails to Speak of the Things One Loves”.

Great article by Brian Dillon