"If parody alone can adequately render the reality of our times, only irony offers us the freedom and detachment that are the essential condition of responsible analysis and action."
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Theodore Ziolkowski, in the Foreword of a 1969 edition of The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
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