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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

Source: Twelve Theatrical Topics, Topic 4, in Dossiers Ac?non?tes due Coll?ge de Pataphysique, no. 5 (Paris), 1960.
-- Alfred Jarry, (Sep 8 1873-1907), French writer; He was the creator of the grotesque and wild satirical farce Ubu roi, 1896; (King Ubu), which was a forerunner of the Theatre of the Absurd.


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