Nature of the signaller. The nature of the signifier suggests roughly the same remarks as that of the signified: it is purely a relatum, whose definition cannot be separated from that of the signified. The only difference is that the magnifier is a mediator: some matter is necessary to it. But on the one hand it is not sufficient to it, and on the other, in semiology, the signifier can, too, be relayed by a certain matter: that of words.
This materiality of the signifier makes it once more necessary to distinguish clearly matter from substance: a substance can be immaterial in the case of the substance of the content ; therefore, all one can say is that the substance of the signifier is always material sounds, objects, images. In semiology, where we shall have to deal with mixed systems in which different kinds of matter are involved sound and image, object and writing, etc.
Classification of the signifiers: The clarification of the signifiers is nothing but the structuralisation proper of the system. These operations constitute an important part of the semiological undertaking which will be dealt with in chapter ; we anticipate the point in mentioning it here.
The significant correlation: The sign is a two-faced slice of sonority, visuality, etc. The significa- tion can be conceived as a process; it is the act which binds the signifier and the signified, an act whose product is the sign.
This distinction has, of course, only a classifying and not phenomenological value: firstly, because the union of signifier and signified, as we shall see, does not exhaust the semantic act, for the sign derives its value also from its surroundings; secondly, because, probably, the mind does not pro- ceed, in the semantic process, by conjunction but by carving out.
And indeed the signification semiosis does not unite unilateral entities, it does not conjoin two terms, for the very good reason that signifier and signified are both at once term and relation. This ambiguity makes any graphic representation of the signification somewhat clumsy, yet this operation is necessary for any semiological discourse. This formula enables us to account economically and without metaphorical falsification, for the metalanguages or derivative systems E R ERC.
The arbitrary and the motivated in linguistics: We have seen that all that could be said about the signifier is that it was a material mediator of the signified. What is the nature of this mediation? In linguistics, this problem has provoked some discussion, chiefly about terminology, for all is fairly clear about the main issues this will perhaps not be the case with semiology. Starting from the fact that in human language the choice of sounds is not imposed on us by the meaning itself the ox does not determine the sound ox, since in any case the sound is different in other languages , Saussure had spoken of an arbitrary relation between signifier and signified.
It was therefore suggested to say that in linguistics the signification is unmotivated. This discussion leads us to keep two different terms, which will be useful during the semiological ex- tension. We shall say that a system is arbitrary when its signs are founded not by convention, but by unilateral decision: the sign is not arbitrary in the language but it is in fashion; and we shall say that a sign is motivated when the relation between its signified and its signifier is analogical Buyssens has put forward, as suitable terms, intrinsic semes for motivated signs, and extrinsic semes for unmotivated ones.
It will therefore be possible to have systems which are arbitrary and motivated, and others which are non-arbitrary and unmotivated. The arbitrary and the motivated in semiology: In linguistics, motivation is limited to the partial plane of derivation or composition; in semiology, on the contrary, it will put to us more general problems. On the one hand, it is possible that outside language systems may be found, in which motivation plays a great part.
On the other hand, it is highly probable that a semiological inventory will reveal the existence of impure systems, comprising either very loose motivations, or motivations pervaded, so to speak, with sec- ondary non-motivations, as if, often, the sign lent itself to a kind of conflict between the motivated and the unmotivated.
This is because in fact motivation here submits, as it were, to phonological models which of course var with different languages: there is an impregnation of the analogical by the digital.
The coexistence of the analogical and the non-analogical therefore seems unquestionable, even within a single system. Yet semiology cannot be content with a description acknowledging this compromise without trying to systematise it, for it cannot admit a continuous differential since, as we shall see, meaning is articulation. These problems have not yet been studied in detail, and it would be impossible to give a general survey of them.
It is therefore probable that at the level of the most general semiology, which merges with anthropology, there comes into being a sort of circularity between the analogical and the unmotivated: there is a double tendency each aspect being complementary to the other to naturalise the unmotivated and to intellectualise the motivated that is to say, to culturalise it.
Saussure did not see the importance of this notion at the outset, but even as early as his second Course in General Linguistics, he increasingly concentrated on it, and value became an essential concept for him, and eventually more important than that of signification with which it is not co-extensive. Value bears a close relation to the notion of the language as opposed to speech ; its effect is to de-psychologise linguistics and to bring it closer to economics; it is therefore central to structural linguistics.
Yet there is a science in which these two aspects have an equal share: economics which include economics proper, and economic history ; the same applies to linguistics, Saussure goes on to say. This is because in both cases we are dealing with a system of equivalence between two different things: work and reward, a signifier and a signified this is the phenomenon which we have up to now called signification.
Yet, in linguistics as well as in economics, this equivalence is not isolated, for if we alter one of its terms, the whole system changes by degrees. One can exchange a five-franc note for bread, soap or a cinema ticket, but one can also compare this banknote with ten- or fifty-franc notes, etc. For Saussure imagines that at the entirely theoretical origin of meaning, ideas and sounds form two floating, labile, continuous and parallel masses of substances; meaning intervenes when one cuts at the same time and at a single stroke into these two masses.
The signs thus produced are therefore articuli; meaning is therefore an order with chaos on either side, but this order is essentially a division. The language is an intermediate object between sound and thought: it consists in uniting both while simultaneously decomposing them. And Saussure suggests a new simile: signifier and signified are like two superimposed layers, one of air, the other of water; when the atmospheric pressure changes, the layer of- water divides into waves-.
These images, of the sheet of paper as well as of the waves, enable us to emphasise a fact which is of the utmost importance for the future of semiological anal- ysis: that language is the domain of articulations, and the meaning is above all a cutting-out of shapes. It follows that the future task of semiology is far less to establish lexicons of objects than to rediscover the articulations which men impose on reality; looking into the distant and perhaps ideal future, we might say that semiology and taxonomy, although they are not yet born, are perhaps meant to be merged into a new science, arthrology, namely, the science of apportionment.
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In other words, wrestling is ancient theatres. And in fact wrestling is an open-air spectacle, for a sum of spectacles, of which no single one is a function: each what makes the circus or the arena what they are is not the sky a moment imposes the total knowledge of a passion which rises erect romantic value suited rather to fashionable occasions , it is the and alone, without ever extending to the crowning moment of a drenching and vertical quality of the flood of light.
Even hidden in result. It is said that judo contains a hidden symbolic aspect; even in the midst of efficiency, There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling, on the contrary, offers to attend a wrestled performance of Suffering than a performance excessive gestures, exploited to the limit of their meaning.
In judo, of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. Then these same people wax indignant because This function of grandiloquence is indeed the same as that of wrestling is a stage-managed sport which ought, by the way, to ancient theatre, whose principle, language and props masks and mitigate its ignominy.
The public is completely uninterested in buskins concurred in the exaggeratedly visible explanation of a knowing whether the contest is rigged or not, and rightly so; it Necessity. The gesture of the vanquished wrestler signifying to the abandons itself to the primary virtue of the spectacle, which is to world a defeat which, far from disguising, he emphasizes and holds abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what like a pause in music, corresponds to the mask of antiquity meant it thinks but what it sees.
In wrestling, as on the stage in antiquity, one is not ashamed of one's suffering, one This public knows very well the distinction between wrestling and knows how to cry, one has a liking for tears. Thauvin, a fifty-year-old with an obese and sagging body, whose type of asexual hideousness always The physique of the wrestlers therefore constitutes a basic sign, inspires feminine nicknames, displays in his flesh the characters of which like a seed contains the whole fight.
But this seed baseness, for his part is to represent what, in the classical concept proliferates, for it is at every turn during the fight, in each new of the salaud, the 'bastard' the key-concept of any wrestling- situation, that the body of the wrestler casts to the public the match , appears as organically repugnant. The nausea voluntarily magical entertainment of a temperament which finds its natural provoked by Thauvin shows therefore a very extended use of expression in a gesture.
The different strata of meaning throw light signs: not only is ugliness used here in order to signify baseness, on each other, and form the most intelligible of spectacles. It will the intention utterly obvious. Sometimes the wrestler triumphs thereafter let itself be frenetically embroiled in an idea of Thauvin with a repulsive sneer while kneeling on the good sportsman; which will conform entirely with this physical origin: his actions sometimes he gives the crowd a conceited smile which forebodes will perfectly correspond to the essential viscosity of his an early revenge; sometimes, pinned to the ground, he hits the personage.
I know from the start that all of Thauvin's actions, personifies the ever-entertaining image of the grumbler, endlessly his treacheries, cruelties and acts of cowardice, will not fail to confabulating about his displeasure. It is obvious their costumes and attitudes, the future contents of their parts: just that at such a pitch, it no longer matters whether the passion is as Pantaloon can never be anything but a ridiculous cuckold, genuine or not. What the public wants is the image of passion, not Harlequin an astute servant and the Doctor a stupid pedant, in the passion itself.
There is no more a problem of truth in wrestling same way Thauvin will never be anything but an ignoble traitor, than in the theatre.
Wrestling is an immediate pantomime, but also and above all understand why he suffers. What wrestlers infinitely more efficient than the dramatic pantomime, for the call a hold, that is, any figure which allows one to immobilize the wrestler's gesture needs no anecdote, no decor, in short no adversary indefinitely and to have him at one's mercy, has transference in order to appear true. The inertia of the instantaneously unveils the relationship between a cause and its vanquished allows the temporary victor to settle in his cruelty represented effect.
Wrestling fans certainly experience a kind of and to convey to the public this terrifying slowness of the torturer intellectual pleasure in seeing the moral mechanism function so who is certain about the outcome of his actions; to grind the face of perfectly.
It is not true that wrestling is a manner of fighting the kind of vehemence and precision found in a sadistic spectacle: it is only an intelligible spectacle. There is another figure, more spectacular still than a hold; it is the forearm smash, this loud slap of the forearm, this embryonic punch What is thus displayed for the public is the great spectacle of with which one clouts the chest of one's adversary, and which is Suffering, Defeat, and Justice.
Wrestling presents man's suffering accompanied by a dull noise and the exaggerated sagging of a with all the amplification of tragic masks. The wrestler who suffers vanquished body. In the forearm smash, catastrophe is brought to in a hold which is reputedly cruel an arm-lock, a twisted leg the point of maximum obviousness, so much so that ultimately the offers an excessive portrayal of Suffering; like a primitive Pieta, he gesture appears as no more than a symbol; this is going too far, this exhibits for all to see his face, exaggeratedly contorted by an is transgressing the moral rules of wrestling, where all signs must intolerable affliction.
It is obvious, of course, that in wrestling be excessively clear, but must not let the intention of clarity be reserve would be out of place, since it is opposed to the voluntary seen.
The public then shouts 'He's laying it on! This is why all the actions which artifice: as in the theatre, one fails to put the part across as much by produce suffering are particularly spectacular, like the gesture of a an excess of sincerity as by an excess of formalism.
Suffering which appeared without intelligible cause would not be We have already seen to what extent wrestlers exploit the understood; a concealed action that was actually cruel would resources of a given physical style, developed and put to use in transgress the unwritten rules of wrestling and would have no more order to unfold before the eyes of the public a total image of sociological efficacy than a mad or parasitic gesture.
On the Defeat. Naturally, it is the pattern of Justice which the exemplary abasement of the vanquished. Deprived of all matters here, much more than its content: wrestling is above all a resilience, the wrestler's flesh is no longer anything but an quantitative sequence of compensations an eye for an eye, a tooth unspeakable heap spread out on the floor, where it solicits for a tooth. This explains why sudden changes of circumstances relentless reviling and jubilation.
There is here a paroxysm of have in the eyes of wrestling habitues a sort of moral beauty: they meaning in the style of antiquity, which can only recall the heavily enjoy them as they would enjoy an inspired episode in a novel, and underlined intentions in Roman triumphs. At other times, there is the greater the contrast between the success of a move and the another ancient posture which appears in the coupling of the reversal of fortune, the nearer the good luck of a contestant to his wrestlers, that of the suppliant who, at the mercy of his opponent, downfall, the more satisfying the dramatic mime is felt to be.
In wrestling, unlike is from the fact that there is a Law that the spectacle of the judo, Defeat is not a conventional sign, abandoned as soon as it is passions which infringe it derives its value. It is as if the matches, only about one is fair.
One must realize, let it be repeated, wrestler is crucified in broad daylight and in the sight of all. I have that 'fairness' here is a role or a genre, as in the theatre the rules do heard it said of a wrestler stretched on the ground 'He is dead, little not at all constitute a real constraint; they are the conventional Jesus, there, on the cross,' and these ironic words revealed the appearance of fairness.
So that in actual fact a fair fight is nothing hidden roots of a spectacle which enacts the exact gestures of the but an exaggeratedly polite one: the contestants confront each most ancient purifications. The idea of 'paying' is essential to congratulate each other at the end of a particularly arduous wrestling, and the crowd's 'Give it to him' means above all else episode, during which, however, they have not ceased to be fair.
This is therefore, needless to say, an immanent One must of course understand here that all these polite actions are justice. The baser the action of the 'bastard', the more delighted the brought to the notice of the public by the most conventional public is by the blow which he justly receives in return.
If the gestures of fairness: shaking hands, raising the arms, ostensibly villain - who is of course a coward - takes refuge behind the ropes, avoiding a fruitless hold which would detract from the perfection claiming unfairly to have a right to do so by a brazen mimicry, he of the contest.
Conversely, foul play exists only in its excessive signs: Wrestlers know very well how to play up to the capacity for administering a big kick to one's beaten opponent, taking refuge indignation of the public by presenting the very limit of the behind the ropes while ostensibly invoking a purely formal right, concept of justice, this outermost zone of confrontation where it is refusing to shake hands with one's opponent before or after the enough to infringe the rules a little more to open the gates of a fight, taking advantage of the end of the round to rush world without restraints.
Since Evil is the natural climate of wrestling, a party, and whether the wrestler is called Kuzchenko nicknamed fair fight has chiefly the value of being an exception. Essentially someone unstable, who accepts the rules only when they are useful to him and transgresses the formal continuity of Extrapolated, fair wrestling could lead only to boxing or judo, attitudes.
He is unpredictable, therefore asocial. He takes refuge whereas true wrestling derives its originality from all the excesses behind the law when he considers that it is in his favour, and which make it a spectacle and not a sport. The ending of a boxing- breaks it when he finds it useful to do so.
Sometimes he rejects the match or a judo-contest is abrupt, like the full-stop which closes a formal boundaries of the ring and goes on hitting an adversary demonstration. The rhythm of wrestling is quite different, for its legally protected by the ropes, sometimes he re-establishes these natural meaning is that of rhetorical amplification: the emotional boundaries and claims the protection of what he did not respect a magniloquence, the repeated paroxysms, the exasperation of the few minutes earlier.
This inconsistency, far more than treachery or retorts can only find their natural outcome in the most baroque cruelty, sends the audience beside itself with rage: offended not in confusion. Some fights, among the most successful kind, are its morality but in its logic, it considers the contradiction of crowned by a final charivari, a sort of unrestrained fantasia where arguments as the basest of crimes.
The forbidden move becomes the rules, the laws of the genre, the referee's censuring and the dirty only when it destroys a quantitative equilibrium and disturbs limits of the ring are abolished, swept away by a triumphant the rigorous reckoning of compensations; what is condemned by disorder which overflows into the hall and carries off pell-mell the audience is not at all the transgression of insipid official rules, wrestlers, seconds, referee and spectators.
So that there is nothing more exciting for a crowd than the grandiloquent kick It has already been noted that in America wrestling represents a given to a vanquished 'bastard'; the joy of punishing is at its climax sort of mythological fight between Good and Evil of a when it is supported by a mathematical justification; contempt is quasipolitical nature, the 'bad' wrestler always being supposed to then unrestrained.
One is no longer dealing with a salaud but with be a Red. The process of creating heroes in French wrestling is a salope - the verbal gesture of the ultimate degradation. What the public is looking for here is the gradual construction of a highly Such a precise finality demands that wrestling should be exactly moral image: that of the perfect 'bastard'.
One comes to wrestling what the public expects of it. Wrestlers, who are very experienced, in order to attend the continuing adventures of a single major know perfectly how to direct the spontaneous episodes of the fight leading character, permanent and multiform like Punch or Scapino, so as to make them conform to the image which the public has of inventive in unexpected figures and yet always faithful to his role.
Leaving nothing in the shade, each action discards all The Romans in Films parasitic meanings and ceremonially offers to the public a pure and full signification, rounded like Nature. This grandiloquence is nothing but the popular and age-old image of the perfect intelligibility of reality. What is portrayed by wrestling is therefore In Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar, all the characters are wearing an ideal understanding of things; it is the euphoria of men raised fringes.
Some have them curly, some straggly, some tufted, some for a while above the constitutive ambiguity of everyday situations oily, all have them well combed, and the bald are not admitted, and placed before the panoramic view of a univocal Nature, in although there are plenty to be found in Roman history. Those who which signs at last correspond to causes, without obstacle, without have little hair have not been let off for all that, and the hairdresser evasion, without contradiction.
Quite simply wife, no one can doubt that wrestling holds that power of the label of Roman-ness. We therefore see here the mainspring of transmutation which is common to the Spectacle and to Religious the Spectacle - the sign - operating in the open.
The frontal lock Worship. In the ring, and even in the depths of their voluntary overwhelms one with evidence, no one can doubt that he is in ignominy, wrestlers remain gods because they are, for a few Ancient Rome. And this certainty is permanent: the actors speak, moments, the key which opens Nature, the pure gesture which act, torment themselves, debate 'questions of universal import', separates Good from Evil, and unveils the form of a justice which without losing, thanks to this little flag displayed on their is at last intelligible.
A Frenchman, to whose eyes American faces still have something exotic, finds comical the combination of the morphologies of these gangster-sheriffs with the little Roman fringe: it rather looks like an excellent music-hall gag. This is because for the French the sign in this case overshoots the target and discredits itself by letting its aim appear clearly. In the whole film, there is but one man of the characters he usually portrays.
Conversely, one cannot who does not sweat and who remains smooth-faced, unperturbed believe in Julius Caesar, whose physiognomy is that of an Anglo- and watertight: Caesar. Of course Caesar, the object of the crime, Saxon lawyer - a face with which one is already acquainted remains dry since he does not know, he does not think, and so must through a thousand bit parts in thrillers or comedies, and a keep the firm and polished texture of an exhibit standing isolated compliant skull on which the hairdresser has raked, with great in the courtroom.
Here again, the sign is ambiguous: it remains on the surface, yet In the category of capillary meanings, here is a sub-sign, that of does not for all that give up the attempt to pass itself off as depth. The former, who is same time suggests that it is spontaneous which is cheating ; it young, expresses disorder by flowing locks: her unreadiness is, so presents itself at once as intentional and irrepressible, artificial and to speak, of the first degree. The latter, who is middle-aged, natural, manufactured and discovered.
This can lead us to an ethic exhibits a more painstaking vulnerability: a plait winds round her of signs. Signs ought to present themselves only in two extreme neck and comes to rest on her right shoulder so as to impose the forms: either openly intellectual and so remote that they are traditional sign of disorder, asymmetry.
But these signs are at the reduced to an algebra, as in the Chinese theatre, where a flag on its same time excessive and ineffectual: they postulate a 'nature' which own signifies a regiment; or deeply rooted, invented, so to speak, they have not even the courage to acknowledge fully: they are not on each occasion, revealing an internal, a hidden facet, and 'fair and square'.
But the intermediate sign, the fringe Yet another sign in this Julius Caesar: all the faces sweat of Roman-ness or the sweating of thought, reveals a degraded constantly.
Labourers, soldiers, conspirators, all have their austere spectacle, which is equally afraid of simple reality and of total and tense features streaming with Vaseline. And closeups are so artifice. For although it is a good thing if a spectacle is created to frequent that evidently sweat here is an attribute with a purpose. Of to confuse the sign with what is signified.
And it is a duplicity what? Of moral feeling. Everyone is sweating because everyone is which is peculiar to bourgeois art: between the intellectual and the debating something within himself; we are here supposed to be in visceral sign is hypocritically inserted a hybrid, at once elliptical the locus of a horribly tormented virtue, that is, in the very locus of and pretentious, which is pompously christened 'nature'.
The populace, upset by the death of Caesar, then by the arguments of Mark Antony, is sweating, and combining economically, in this single sign, the intensity of its emotion and the simplicity of its condition. And the virtuous men, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, are ceaselessly perspiring too, testifying thereby to the enormous physiological labour produced in them by a virtue just about to give birth to a crime.
What proves the wonderful singularity of the writer, is that during the holiday in question, which he takes alongside factory workers Gide was reading Bossuet while going down the Congo. This and shop assistants, he unlike them does not stop, if not actually posture sums up rather well the ideal of our writers 'on holiday', as working, at least producing.
So that he is a false worker, and a photographed by Le Figaro: to add to mere leisure the prestige of a false holiday-maker as well. One is writing his memoirs, another is vocation which nothing can stop or degrade. Here is therefore a correcting proofs, yet another is preparing his next book. And he good piece of journalism, highly efficient sociologically, and who does nothing confesses it as truly paradoxical behaviour, an which gives us, without cheating, information on the idea which avant-garde exploit, which only someone of exceptional our bourgeoisie entertains about its writers.
One then realizes, thanks to this kind of boast, that it is quite 'natural' that the writer should write all What seems above all else to surprise and delight it, then, is its the time and in all situations. First, this treats literary production as own broad-mindedness in acknowledging that writers too are the a sort of involuntary secretion, which is taboo, since it escapes sort of people who commonly take holidays.
At first a part of the tyrant that he is, with the holidays of his medium. Writers are on school world, they have become, since the advent of holidays with holiday, but their Muse is awake, and gives birth non-stop.
To assert that this phenomenon can henceforth The second advantage of this logorrhea is that, thanks to its concern writers, that the specialists of the human soul are also peremptory character, it is quite naturally regarded as the very subjected to the common status of contemporary labour, is a way essence of the writer.
True, the latter concedes that he is endowed of convincing our bourgeois readers that they are indeed in step with a human existence, with an old country house, with relatives, with the times: they pride themselves on acknowledging certain with shorts, with a small daughter, etc. By having holidays, he displays the sign of his being Needless to say, this proletarianization of the writer is granted only human; but the god remains, one is a writer as Louis XIV was with parsimony, the more completely to be destroyed afterwards.
Thus the function of the man of letters No sooner endowed with a social attribute and holidays are one is to human labour rather as ambrosia is to bread: a miraculous, such attribute, a very agreeable one , the man of letters returns eternal substance, which condescends to take a social form so that straight away to the empyrean which he shares with the its prestigious difference is better grasped. All this prepares one for professionals of inspiration.
And the 'naturalness' in which our the same idea of the writer as a superman, as a kind of intrinsically novelists are eternalized is in fact instituted in order to convey a different being which society puts in the window so as to use to the sublime contradiction: between a prosaic condition, produced alas best advantage the artificial singularity which it has granted him.
Establishment practises the better to enslave its writers. The singularity of a 'vocation' is never better displayed than when it is contradicted - but not denied, far from it - by a prosaic incarnation: this is an old trick of all hagiographies.
So that this myth of 'literary holidays' is seen to spread very far, much farther than summer: the techniques of contemporary journalism are devoted more and more to presenting the writer as a prosaic figure. But one would be very wrong to take this as an attempt to demystify. Quite the contrary. True, it may seem touching, and even flattering, that I, a mere reader, should participate, thanks to such confidences, in the daily life of a race selected by genius.
I would no doubt feel that a world was blissfully fraternal, in which newspapers told me that a certain great writer wears blue pyjamas, and a certain young novelist has a liking for 'pretty girls, reblochon cheese and lavender-honey'.
This does not alter the fact that the balance of the operation is that the writer becomes still more charismatic, leaves this earth a little more for a celestial habitat where his pyjamas and his cheeses in no way prevent him from resuming the use of his noble demiurgic speech.
To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mythical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences.
For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanity the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pyjamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience, or else make a profession of liking reblochon with that same voice with which they announce their forthcoming Phenomenology of the Ego.
By renouncing these privileges, kings make them recede into the heaven of dream: their very temporary sacrifice determines and eternalizes the signs of daily bliss.
Ever since the Coronation, the French had been pining for fresh news about royal activities, of which they are extremely fond; the What is more curious is that this mythical character of our kings is setting out to sea of a hundred or so royals on a Greek yacht, the nowadays secularized, though not in the least exorcized, by Agamemnon, entertained them greatly. The Coronation of resorting to scientism of a sort. Kings are defined by the purity of Elizabeth was a theme which appealed to the emotions and their race Blue Blood like puppies, and the ship, the privileged sentimentalities; the 'Blue Blood' Cruise is a humorous episode: locus of any 'closure', is a kind of modern Ark where the main kings played at being men, as in a comedy by de Flers and variations of the monarchic species are preserved.
To such an Caillavet; there followed a thousand situations, droll because of extent that the chances of certain pairings are openly computed. Enclosed in their floating stud-farm, the thoroughbreds are Such a feeling of amusement carries a heavy pathological burden: sheltered from all mongrel marriages, all is prepared for them if one is amused by a contradiction, it is because one supposes its annually, perhaps?
As terms to be very far apart. In other words, kings have a small in number as pug-dogs on this earth, the ship immobilizes superhuman essence, and when they temporarily borrow certain and gathers them, and constitutes a temporary 'reservation' where forms of democratic life, it can only be through an incarnation an ethnographic curiosity as well protected as a Sioux territory will which goes against nature, made possible through condescension be kept and, with luck, increased.
To flaunt the fact that kings are capable of prosaic actions is to recognize that this status is no more natural to them than The two century-old themes are merged, that of the God-King and angelism to common mortals, it is to acknowledge that the king is that of the King-Object. But this mythological heaven is not as still king by divine right. The most ethereal mystifications, the 'amusing details' of the 'Blue Blood' Cruise, all this anecdotal Thus the neutral gestures of daily life have taken, on the blah with which the national press made its readers drunk is not Agamemnon, an exorbitantly bold character, like those creative proffered without damage: confident in their restored divinity, the fantasies in which Nature violates its own kingdoms: kings shave princes democratically engage in politics.
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