Originally posted by: 6thElement
Roland Barthes- Lover's Discourse: Fragments
je t'aime/I-love-you
The figure refers not to the declaration of love, to the avowal. But to the repeated utterance of the love cry... Once the first avowal has been made, "I love you" has no meaning whatever; it merely repeats in an enigmatic mode...so blank does it appear...the old message... The situations in which I say I-love-you cannot be classified: I-love-you is irrepressible and unforeseeable... I-love-you belongs neither to the realm of linguistics nor in that of semiology...in the proferring of I-love-you, desire is neither repressed (as in what is uttered) nor recognized (where we did not expect it: as in the uttering itself), but simply: released... This formula responds to no ritual; the situations in which I say I-love-you cannot be classified.
Meaning: Courtesy "http://pasaudela.blogspot.com/2005/09/i-love-you.html"
After the initial avowal, "I love you" is meaningless. Or rather, it demands and refuses to wait for a certain response, immediate and yet sincere. But what is the nature of this response? A necessary affirmation, each repetition carrying within itself the promise of a double "yes,yes." But also the inadequacy of "I love you too," said with a gentle smile, sometimes almost apologetically, as if the second repetition was never performing quite the same ammount or quality of work, so much as acknowledging a risk, a void the pretense of co-signature.
I must be really out of my game, for it took me a while to wrap my head around these two paragraphs. I thought I should share it with you all. Well, it's Barthes' perspective to think the sentence as all encompassing and nothing at all, after the moment of utterance, but I leave it to you to make up your own discourse of it, of what you do expect and don't after you avow to your amorous object (π partner)...And would some of you go to the extent of expressing it at all? when - again - according to Barthes'
Love is "that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive (by the limitless expansion of the ego, by emotive submersion) and impoverished (by the codes on which love diminishes and levels it)"
Originally posted by: 6thElement
Ok...For all those IPPKND fans...
SS: Cirque du Soleil
Hush! If you are like me, just imagine Maan and Geet there...π
This doesn't mean there will no more Maaneet. It takes time to write something for them. Trust me the ones that appeal to me more are always in reserve for M&G and you can have no doubt there. Geet forum will die soon...so keep it alive folks!
Originally posted by: 6thElement
Ok...For all those IPPKND fans...
SS: Cirque du Soleil
Hush! If you are like me, just imagine Maan and Geet there...π
This doesn't mean there will no more Maaneet. It takes time to write something for them. Trust me the ones that appeal to me more are always in reserve for M&G and you can have no doubt there. Geet forum will die soon...so keep it alive folks!
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