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Writing in 1929 in his poem ‘Über die Bauart langdauernder Werke’, Bertolt Brecht asks and answers a question about the work of art and its relationship to time:
How long Do works endure? As long As they are incomplete. As long as they make trouble They never decay.1
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Johnson, N. (2014). A Theatre of the Unword: Censorship, Hegemony and Samuel Beckett. In: Collins, C., Caulfield, M.P. (eds) Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362186_3
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