"'All the delights
of the earth'
comblement / fulfillment
The subject insistently posits the desire and the
Possibility of a complete satisfaction of the desire
Implicated in the amorous relation and of a perfect
And virtually eternal success of this relation ~
Paradisiac image of the Sovereign Good, to be
Given and to be received.
1. 'Now, take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one
single delight, and cast it entire into a single man ~ all this will be
as nothing to the delight of which I speak. Thus fulfillment is a
precipitation: something is condensed, steams over me, strikes me like
a lightning bolt."
~ Roland Barthes,
Quoted message said:From "A Lover's Discourse,
Fragments"
Translation, Richard Howard
[p. 54]