LA DOLCE VITA, THE SWEET LIFE
Is this a text? Roland Barthes' "Work to Text" explains the use of text in everyday situations. Is a foreign language text if no one understands it? If one person understands it? I wonder. What is our conception of language? Of text? Of communication? How do we decide where to go from a specific image, text, or an American dream? I wonder. C'est la vie. That's life. La dolce vita. The sweet life. However life is, we have to work to interpret to text in several different ways. What is a text? Is it the text on the movie poster? Is is the foreign language? Is it the translation of the foreign language? Is it the text I'm typing? Whatever the case, text is interpreted in different ways, just as there are many different American dreams. Everyone has their own dreams, and everyone wonders about different ideas. Dreams, ideas, and concepts are constantly changing, and there's no definite answer as to what, who, or why something is. There's no reason that life is or is not sweet, and there's no reason that every crevice, every crack, every nook of every text is important or unimportant. What matters is the content and the meaning. What is a text? Whether working to create a text or understanding a text, text exists in several forms, in communication, in foreign languages, in life.
Hello. How are you? Do you speak Greek?
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