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quote from the film "Theorem" by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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You've come to shock the image I had of myself

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Dionysus is the god of duplicity

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the god who combines

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the world and the nature contradictions of existence

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is the god of presence and absence.

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That's why another symbol of Dionysus is the mask

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in the ceremonies in his honor he does not appear physically but is present

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those ceremonies are not made in honor of Dionysus

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but with Dionysus present through a mask

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leaning against a wooden column covered by a cloak

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He there is and there is not

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You can see and you don't

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because the mask is the subversion of an identity, of the "persona"

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the word "person" comes from an Etruscan "phersu" which was a mask

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which meant the physiognomy of every single actor on the stage

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and that's what characterizes each of us.

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so the mask allows the person to become something else

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what he/she wants to be and is not in the constituted society

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in the order and balance that each of us knows

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Dionysius appears and upsets everything