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voice added to the tradition, to have it become part of the official heritage
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and yet at odds with it, casting a different light back.
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This is precisely that modernist dream specifically articulated by
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T.S. Eliot in "Tradition and the
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Individual Talent" that the contribution of the individual adds
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to and changes the tradition in one swoop.
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Is this going to be Barth's ambition, too?
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This is a question for us, again, that I want to, kind of,
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keep up on the shelf in your mind.
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In some way it's a parody of that modernist effort,
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when it comes in the voice of a sperm,
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because this whole story is a parody.