Excellent point and very well said: "blind obedience of every impulse, is actually slavery."

I fully agree with you, my old world friend, about freedom favoring tradition and rules and believe this applies to art, morality, spirituality, all of life, really: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

I'm not familiar with Queneau, and curious about what he has to say on this subject :) Thanks, @godflesh, for taking time to stop by & have this nice exchange. Congrats, btw, on your poetry win!