KARACHI, Aug 10: In his oft-quoted thesis ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, T.S. Eliot asserts that tradition cannot be inherited. He states that if you want it you must obtain it with great labour because it involves the historical sense not only of the pastness of the past but its presence — the sense of the timeless and the temporal is what makes a writer traditional.
If we replace the word writer with artist, Eliot’s assertion would remain the same, after all writers are also
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