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Incidents

 

A certain Jean, a young professor - of what? - leans over my book: "I could never get that guy (Proust) through my head; but I fell it'll happen one fo these days". His friend Pierre, dumbfounded, disdainful, and dry (indifferent to the answer): "Are you taking notes?"

Little I. bring me flowers, a real country bouquet: a few heads of geranium, a spray of red briar roses, two roses, four sprigs of jasmine. He has had this impulse after the great pleasure I have given him: typing his name several different ways on a piece of paper that I presented him (flowers in exchange for writing). 

Having given one of them an aspirin, now they all have headaches and I become a dispensary.

Roland Barthes
1915 - 1980