Alphabetarion # Hallucination | Roland Barthes, 1980

Moorish tessellations, Alhambra de Granada, 1936

"I am trying to render the special quality of this hallucination..." 

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, 1980


Also:

Language is never innocent / Writing is the destruction of every voice | Roland Barthes, 1915-80
Language is a Skin | Roland Barthes, 1977