The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Nationality: Czechoslovakian Type: Leader Born: October 5, 1936 |
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

