Magical paths : labyrinths and mazes in the 21st century

'the lover's discourse is today of an extreme solitude. This discourse is spoken, perhaps, by
thousands of subjects (who knows?), but warranted by no one; it is completely forsaken by the
surrounding languages: ignored, disparaged, or derided by them, severed not only from authority
but also from the mechanisms of authority (sciences, techniques, arts). Once a discourse is thus
driven by its own momentum into the backwater of the 'unreal: exiled from all gregarity, it has
no recourse but to become the site, however exiguous, of an affirmation.'
Roland Barthes