“In all technologically "advanced" countries, fashion has replaced tradition, so that involuntary membership in a society can no longer provide a feeling of community.”

—  W. H. Auden , book Forewords and Afterwords

"Lame Shadows", p. 410
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)

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