When was the last time you wrote a love letter for your beloved? I am still doing that yet the recipient isn’t confined to a single person. I enjoy uploading my letters to others onto my blog, without disclosing the names of the recipients. Sounds weird? Semiotician Roland Barthes doesn’t think so. He proposes a dialectic nature of love letters, both blank and expressive, in his book “A Lover's Discourse: Fragments”. Blankness refers to the encoding-decoding relationship between recipient and writer: those blank words can be decoded into love poems your special someone’s eyes.
多久沒有為愛人好好寫封情書了？我仍然會這樣做，不過收信對象並不限於某人，而是，任何人。我愛把想跟某君所說的話，或語重心長，或呢喃囈語，寫在自己的網誌上面－當然我會把上款移除。這是古怪的行為嗎？符號學大師羅蘭巴特可不認同。他在《戀人絮語》一書中提及，情書由兩個元素構成：空白和外顯情感。所謂空白，指的就是寫信人與收信者之間的編碼、解碼關係。那些別人不為人知的空白內容，經過唯一的收信者的解碼後，也許會變成讓人心甜的綿綿情話。
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