كانت رقصةً من الأقنعة، وكان كل قناع مثاليًّا لأن كل قناع وجهٌ حقيقي، وكان كل وجه قناعًا حقيقيًّا، فلم يكن ثمة قناع ولا وجه، إذ لم تكن ثمة إلا رقصةٌ واحدة، وقناعٌ واحد، ووجهٌ حقيقيٌّ واحد، هو ذاته، وهو شيءٌ بلا اسم، يتغيّر ويتغيّر إلى ذاته مرارًا وتكرارًا.

“It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.”Leonard Cohen — Beautiful Losers (2011)