While the most popular interpretative scheme in Barthes's book proved to be his binarism between the studium and the punctum (the theme and the informational content of the photograph on the one hand, and its affective impact, on the other) […]

And when yer mind wanders back tah dat possibility, o’er da long yurs and barters ya been doin’, yee either lose dat hope all o’er again and it becomes nuttin more dan a passin thought, er yee find yerself thinkin’ of home, of havin’ dat hope.

This uncertainty is at the heart of signature strike targeting. Attacks that cannot determine whether a target is legitimate are illegal in IHL thanks to the ban on indiscriminate attacks in Article 51 of Additional Protocol I (1977).

“Yes,” continued the valet, “and sigh his soul to the last puff unobserved, liked the dying flame in a dark lanthorn.”