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6) The punctuation suggests a hesitation to end the sentence; Barthes seems to fear the encroaching terminus of his thought pattern. He seems to want to avoid a sentence with parameters, hoping (perhaps) that he can use punctuation to rethink the conventional boundaries of sentence structure. (+/- #3) This process parallels the system he (and I) hopes the reader will adopt: always seeking to increase the visible referents in a text.