translation: Thế nhưng sau tang thương lại là một niềm vui tột đỉnh, là sự cởi trói mọi dục vọng và thoả mãn mọi ước muốn. việc quan sát thiết chế lễ hội ở đây đối với chúng ta không hề khó nhọc gì.
translation: But the mourning is followed by demonstrations of festive rejoicing: every instinct is unfettered and there is licence for every kind of gratification. here we have easy access to an understanding of the nature of festivals in general. a festival is a permitted, or rather an obligatory, excess, a solemn breach of a prohibition. it is not that men commit the excesses because they are feeling happy as a result of some injunction they have received. it is rather that excess is of the essence of a festival; the festive feeling is produced by the liberty to do what is as a rule prohibited.