Mourning Diary

Roland Barthes and Richard Howard

My 3 highlights

  • Solitude = having no one at home to whom you can say: I’ll be back at a specific time or who you can call to say (or to whom you can just say): voilà, I’m home now.
  • In the sentence “She’s no longer suffering,” to what, to whom does “she” refer? What does that present tense mean?
  • I have not a desire but a need for solitude.