All well enough and true, but it's Barthes' problem (along with that of translator Howard, who tortures Barthes' jargon into "oneiric," "rugosity," "utensility") that we sense him always lounging fiercely upon the Procrustean bed. it separates and groups"-and thus, since all panorama is "intellectualist," every visitor is made a structuralist. more the crystallizer than the true object." Anywhere you look in Paris there it is yet, from its top, "it gives us the world to be read. He considers the Eiffel Tower and finds it "an object which one sees, a glance which is seen it is a complete verb, both active and passive. Another crop of "mythologies"-structuralist patterns inside daffy life-from Barthes, pieces that are as close as he ever comes to occasional writing.
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