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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

Source: Mythologies, The World of Wrestling (1957; tr. 1972). What wrestling is above all meant to portray, Barthes added, is a purely moral concept: that of justice. The idea of 'paying' is essentia
-- Roland Barthes, (Nov 12 1915-1980), French critic; He was known for his contributions to structural linguistics and New Criticism intellectual movement; wrote Writing Degree Zero, 1953.

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