communicating something.” I said “Oh, what does 
it communicate?” “Oh,” he said “very simple, Quid.” 
“Quid?” “Quid is quest for identity. That’s how I 
mark in the margin of the books I read, where I see 
the theme concerning the quest for identity. The 
Greeks invented theatre to recover from the 
disastrous effect that the phonetic alphabet has 
had on their society and their psychology. And 
tragedy was a remedy.”

That was an amazing moment. It really was, 
because I understood something right then and 
thre, immediately, and yet it would have taken me 
another five or six years to get to the end of that,