"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them"
Marilyn Monroe

Die Braut

Hanna Höch, 1927

"...A wedding, after all, is a ritual. But is there something beyond the ritual at all? There isn't... It's a great shame that we melancholiacs don't value rituals. I'm having a tough time at parties myself. Now we'll all have fun, fun, fun. Perhaps because melancholiacs set the stakes higher than at just a few beers and some music. And there's more of a party if we have coloured festoons. It seems so phony. Rituals are, you know. But if rituals are worth nothing, that goes for everything, you know..."

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