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503f538 No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. words story history humanity reality semiotics truthful narrative memory Roger Zelazny
5622c81 Language disguises thought. philosophy semiotics logic Ludwig Wittgenstein
bc004e8 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, responded to those signs I awaited with other signs I made myself, or rather it was I who aroused them, these signs from her, which I answered with other signs of my own . . . semiotics Italo Calvino
bba1c08 "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 fact be used "to tell" at all." truth semiotics Umberto Eco
a6bf587 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 nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men. reading nineteenth-century victorians semiotics narrative plot novels literary-theory postmodernism literary-criticism Jeffrey Eugenides
62abc34 "Everything means something," Lyra said severely. "We just have to find out how to read it." semiotics Philip Pullman