every beautiful work, or even every work to make an impression, every impressive work, functions as a desired work, but i would say, and it's here that it starts to get interesting, that every work i read as desirable, even as i am desiring it, i experience as incomplete and somehow lost, because i didn't do it myself, and i have to in some way retrieve it by redoing it; in this way, to write is to want to rewrite:i add myself actively to that which is beautiful and that i lack; as we might put it with an old verb: that i require.

                                                                                                                   roland barthes