For Barthes, the task of the novelist is to unexpress what has already been expressed, to deliberately play havoc with what is undeniably — and therefore frustratingly — true.

For example, in our Area A excavations we recovered a well-preserved housefloor with numerous postmolds atop a housemound 1 m high; the roofed-over floor space measured 6.2 m by 4.5 m or 27.9 square meters. By contrast, our Area D excavations exposed a housefloor with postmolds on a housemound just 55 centimeters in height; […]

He […] endeavoured to disculpate the youth, and left no method untried to soften the tyrant's rage.

its fluctuations are but motions subservient; which winds, storms, shores, shelves, and every interjacency irregulates