Only from afar and by degrees the suspicion dawns here and there that all this is perhaps a cheap and superficial esthetic philosophy, and that we make a mistake in attributing to our great dramatists those magnificent conceptions of beauty that come to us from antiquity. These conceptions are not native to us, but are merely picked up at second hand, and it is in them, with their common source in the visible body, that the origin of the fiction of an ego, an individual, is really to be found.
Hasiera batean urrutitik eta gero poliki-poliki hasten da batzuengan argitzen agian azaleko estetika merke bat dela guztia, oker gabiltzala gure dramagile handiei antzinateko edertasun kontzeptuak, bikainak noski, baina ez jatorrizkoak, baizik guri gaineratuak, ezartzen dizkiegunean, kontzeptu horrek hain zuzen ere ikusten den soinetik abiaturik Nlaren, pertsonaren fikzioa idoro baitu.