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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

Henry Miller
Evil, Progress, Different
Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.172, New Directions Publishing
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.