Dark Glasses

cacher / to hide
A deliberative figure: the amorous subject wonders, not whether he should declare his love to the loved being (this is not a figure of avowal), but to what degree he should conceal the turbulences of his passion: his desires, his distresses; in short, his excesses (in Racinian language: his fureur.)

Fragmentos de un Discurso Amoroso, Roland Barthes.

Fragmentos de un Discurso Amoroso - 1

"I am engulfed, I succumb..."
Outburst of annihilation which affects the amorous subject in despair or fulfillment.

"Estoy consumido, sucumbo..."
Arrebato de aniquilación que provoca en el enamorado desesperanza o plenitud.

Fragmentos de un Discurso Amoroso, Roland Barthes
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