Quotes About Alfred Jarry

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.

Alfred] Jarry's teaching could be summarized thus: every man is capable of showing his contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the universe by making his own life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.