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MYTH TODAY: "What is a myth, today? I shall give at the outset a first, very simple answer, which is perfectly consistent with etymology: myth is a type of speech." --------------------------------------------- "A tree is a tree. Yes, of course. But a tree as expressed by Minou Drouet is no longer quite a tree, it is a tree which is decorated, adapted to a certain type of consumption, laden with literary self-indulgence, revolt, images, in short with a type of social usage which is added to pure matter." --------------------------------------------- # 'Mythologies' Roland Barthes, Translated from the French Mythologies (c) 1957 by Editions du Seuil, Paris, Translation (c) 1972 by Jonathan Cape Ltd. --