Oland R Barthes, The buzz of the language , Einaudi 1988, pp. 79-81; The bruissement de la langue , 1984
"The word is irreversible, this is his fate. What has been said can not be modified, if not increasing it : Correct means here, oddly enough, add. Speaking can never erase, delete, cancel, all I can do is say "cancel, cancel, rectify" - in short, still talking. I will call "stutter" that singular cancellation due to additions.
Babbling is a failure message twice: on the one hand you understand it wrong, but from 'the other, with some effort, it is understood, however, is not really either in language or outside of it: it is a noise language comparable to the number of rattles with which an engine indicates there is not a point, this is the sense of falter, sound sign of a looming meltdown in the operation of the object. Babbling (engine or subject) is, in essence, a fear I fear I should stop along the way. (...)
The buzz is the sound of what works well. Consequently there is a paradox: i1 denotes a buzz noise limit, not the sound of that, working perfectly, no noise, the buzz is the evaporation of the same noise: the small intestine, the confused, are perceived as the tremulous the signs of a noise cancellation.
(...) And the language, can produce the buzz? As a word, it would seem doomed to babble; as writing, silence and the distinction of signs: in any case, it is still too sense because the language comes to an entitlement to its own field. But what is impossible is not inconceivable: the buzz of the tongue as a Utopia.
(...)
I imagine today some 'in the manner of the ancient Greeks, as well as Hegel described it: interrogators, he said, passionately and untiringly the buzz of the fronds, light sources, wind, short the thrill of nature, to find the design of intelligence. And I wonder the thrill of listening to sense the buzz of language - the language that is my peculiar nature of modern man. "
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