• 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: 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.
    Katharine Noel, Alfred Jarry (2007). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr