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It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. . . . I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty.

Source: In L'Ymagier, (Paris), 1894; repr. in The Banquet Years, by Roger Shattuck, ch. 8, 1958.
-- 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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