"To know that one does not write for the other, to know these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not - this is the beginning of writing."
Barthes, A Lover's Discourse
1978:100 (trans. Richard Howard, Penguin)
Fame & fable
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It seems that many of the inventors still talked about never saw their work
brought into being — take da Vinci’s lens grinder, Babbage’s Diffe- rence
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