Waiting

6.

A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. "I shall be yours", she told him, "when you have spent a hundred nights waiting for me, sitting on a stool, in my garden, beneath my window." But on the ninety-ninth night, the mandarin stood up, put his stool under his arm, and went away.

"What is to be done"

1.

(...) Or else: I stubbornly choose not to choose; I choose drifting: I continue.

"When my finger accidentally..."

1.

(...)

A squeeze of the hand -enormous documentation- a tiny gesture within the palm, a knee which doesn't move away, an arm extended, as if quite naturally, along the back of a sofa and against which the other's head gradually comes to rest -this is the paradisiac realm of subtle and clandestine signs: a kind of festival not of the senses baut of meaning.

Events, Setbacks, Annoyances

1.

"Because this morning, X was in good mood, because I received a present from X, because our next meeting is all set --but because, unexpectedly, tonight, I ran into X accompanied by Y, because I imagined them whispering together about me when they caught sight of me, because this meeting has demonstrated the ambiguity of our situation, and perhaps this meeting has demonstrated the ambiguity of our situation, and perhaps even X's duplicity-- the euphoria has stopped"

(again) A Lover's Discourse, Fragments - Roland Barthes

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"Nuestra casa respiraba calma.

Los verdaderos presentimientos se forman a profundidades que nuestra mente no visita. A veces también, nos llevan a realizar actos que interpretamos de un modo equívoco."

(Otra vez) El Diablo en el Cuerpo, Raymond Radiguet