In the first sentence of a review concerning the posthumous publication of Roland Barthes’ journals:
Nearly three decades after he was hit and fatally injured by a laundry van in a Paris street, the French literary theorist and critic Roland Barthes still enjoys rare prestige in his native land as well as in the English-speaking world.
From page 329 of Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy:
Barthes should not have died so early. He was run over by a milk truck…
Which killed the great semiotician? A truck carrying laundry or a truck carrying milk?
it was a peach truck.
Eat a peach, brother.
It was obviously those pesky readers and their ready-formed dictionaries–they hurt!
It was a laundry truck, more specifically a diaper truck.
A laundry truck doing a milk run, perhaps.
a weighty question indeed. let me take a moment from worrying about global economic and environmental disaster, and the fate of my children, to ponder it.
I HART BARTHES