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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a "mummified" form.

Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), French playwright, author. repr. in The Selected Works of Alfred Jarry, eds. Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor (1965). "Twelve Theatrical Topics," topic 10, Dossiers Acénonètes due Collège de Pataphysique, no. 5 (Paris, 1960).

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