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“Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles the reader’s historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, memories, brings to a crisis his relation with language.” (Barthes)
Every canto being a corridor thick with voices. Who likened the voice, someone’s speaking voice, to their essence? Barthes names the space between language and voice: the grain. “The body in the sound.” We’re still with 13th century Italian troubadour Sordello, who adores Virgil. They have a shared language—-la lingua nostra…