Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller

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Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text,trans. Richard Miller

[ID: A screenshot of text reading, “Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones” (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.“ /end ID]