"Persia is a country in transition between past and present, a boiling mass of half East, half West. It is sharing these labels, but still has something that is more Eastern, in a very deep way, than anything we know, and yet it's more Western than even we'd like it to be."
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Peter Brook, as quoted in A. C. H. Smith (1971) Orghast at Persepolis.
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