What makes a text, oh so pleasing. Barthes- Pre class blog

A quote from Barthes reading that resonates with me in particular was "our very avidty for knowledge impels us to skim or skip certain passages in order to get more quickly to the warmer parts of the anecdote" (108) There is an immediate connection here for me in this sense, especially when reading for sheer pleasure. Although, when you think of a text or a piece that you have been asked to annalyze for academic purposes there is a tendency to look, dig and search through sentences for something of apparent substances. When I think about my personal reads on the other hard,you find great deal of pleasurable texts allow and even call for the reader to skip parts. Barthes suggest that "It is the very rhythm of what is read and what is not read that creates the pleasure of the great narratives" (109). When I think of this I notice of an array of books in which I have read, intrigued and waiting to get to the core of action that have made me skim lines, digging for what I wanted to see or even expected to see. Therefore I can especially relate to the ways in whick Barthes speaks of this practice as an observer in a strip club, anxious to move past the striptease and to the real "show". A perfect example of this would be in the oh so popular book series of the summer, Fifty Shades of Grey. Although I had taken a stance to not fall to the summer trend, I found myself collecting the book one afternoon skimming through the "important background story" to gain assess to the meat of the plot. This, by all accounts was the actual pleasure within the text.