Barthes
for what happens to the language does not happen to the discourse: what ‘happens’, what ‘goes away’, the seam of the two edges, the interstice of bliss, occurs in the volume of the languages, in the uttering, not in the sequence of utterances: not to devour to gobble, but to graze, to browse scrupulously, to rediscover - in order to read today’s writers - the leisure of bygone readings: to be aristocratic readers.
Text of pleasure: the text that contents, fills, grants euphoria; the text that comes from culture and does not break with it, is linked to a comfortable practice of reading. Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles the reader’s historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, memories, brings to a crisis his relation with language.