Well, my door was open and my cat was in the hallway meowing. Which I heard, but I just thought he was being annoying. I wish I'd gone to find him, because perhaps I would have avoided this. And now I have a bonus of extra awakeness! I am not necessarily asleep by this time, but I am usually in bed dozing.

Also, I am now wearing pants!

Yikes Sophia! That is why I tend not to answer my door.

I rarely answer my door, but the cop was actually in my apartment (my door is at the bottom of the stairway) and, like shining a light up onto me!

I know post-structuralism often focuses on the way language is used to control/oppress people, acquire/maintain power, etc (Foucault especially wrote a lot about this). I don't remember if structuralism is similar in this respect.

Oh, Foucault. Even his name tires me.

OK, I was off a little on the meaning of "signifier"

signifier (the sound pattern of a word, either in mental projection - as when we silently recite lines from a poem to ourselves - or in actual, physical realization as part of a speech act)

...so, not the same as the "word."

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I found Foucault difficult, but rewarding when I struggled through a book.

I rarely answer my door, but the cop was actually in my apartment (my door is at the bottom of the stairway) and, like shining a light up onto me!

Ay yay! How long was your cat meowing? Like two days? Because that's about how long I'd wait before CALLING THE COPS about a neighbor, if that was the only "evidence."

OK, my previous post about "signifier" pertained to semiotics. Structuralism is a little different when applied to literary criticism.

Why couldn't there be Wikipedia when I was in college?

Hee. I was wondering about structuralism and its relationship to semiotics. That was all sounding very familiar.

And it might have involved Spike being accused of killing Elizabeth Short, I'm not really sure.

I'm not sure if this is the funniest or the saddest thing I've heard all day.