“ Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nine… Jeffrey Eugenides
“ One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words William Saroyan
“ I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. "Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is what remains of the house. One is still prone to think of a house a… David Markson
“ Everything means something, Lyra said severely. We just have to find out how to read it. Philip Pullman
“ I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these signs I had begun to recognize, I sought them, responde… Italo Calvino
“ Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in… Umberto Eco
“ In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject. Roland Barthes
“ In Arachnia as it is spoken on Nepiy, ‘she’ is the pronoun for all sentient individuals of whatever species who have achieved the legal status of ‘woman’. The ancient, dimorphic form ‘he’, once used e… Samuel R. Delany
“ To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of c… Aldous Huxley
