| Translator's Introduction
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| I AM LOOKING FOR A SUN: PRE-DADA, 1917–1919 | |
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| Medusa | 26 |
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| To Douxami | 28 |
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| Delightful | 29 |
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| [Aphorisms] | 30 |
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| Fifty-Two Mirrors | 32 |
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| White Pajamas | 58 |
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| Poems and Drawings of the Daughter Born without a Mother | 60 |
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| The Mortician's Athlete | 98 |
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| Platonic False Teeth | 111 |
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| A Blackbird Missing a Feather | 118 |
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| Scarlet Runners | 119 |
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| American Saliva | 120 |
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| Poem | 121 |
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| [Aphorism] | 121 |
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| [Untitled] | 122 |
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| Lengthy Lips | 123 |
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| Purring Poetry | 124 |
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| Other Little Manifesto | 147 |
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| Cod-Liver Oil | 147 |
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| YOU BUNCH OF IDIOTS: DADA, 1919–1921 | |
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| Thoughts without Language | 152 |
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| Tombs and Brothels | 178 |
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| [Statement] | 179 |
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| Manifesto of the Dada Movement | 179 |
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| Survey | 180 |
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| Doctor Serner's Notebook | 180 |
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| [Statement by F. P.] | 182 |
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| Unique Eunuch | 183 |
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| [Aphorisms] | 197 |
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| [Aphorism] | 198 |
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| [Untitled] | 199 |
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| Dada Manifesto | 199 |
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| [Untitled] | 201 |
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| [Untitled] | 201 |
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| [Untitled] | 201 |
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| Chimney Sperm | 202 |
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| Dada Cannibal Manifesto | 204 |
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| [Untitled] | 205 |
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| Open Letter to Monsieur H.-R. Lenormand | 206 |
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| [Sandwich Board] | 208 |
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| To Madame Rachilde | 209 |
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| [Untitled] | 209 |
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| The Refrain, of What? | 211 |
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| A Silly-Willy's Notebook | 212 |
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| To Be Seasick on a Transport of Joy | 212 |
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| [Untitled] | 213 |
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| [Untitled] | 214 |
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| Philosophical Dada | 214 |
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| Art | 216 |
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| [Untitled] | 217 |
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| Poetry for Those Who Don't Understand | 217 |
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| I Am Javanese | 218 |
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| Presbyopic–Festival–Manifesto | 219 |
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| May Day | 220 |
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| Jesus Christ Rastaquouère | 224 |
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| [Untitled] | 252 |
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| She Doesn't Blush | 252 |
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| Antenna | 254 |
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| An Awkward Affair | 254 |
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| Manifesto Pierced from Behind | 255 |
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| Rumor Has It That | 256 |
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| Bar | 256 |
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| Drat | 257 |
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| Dada-Madrid | 257 |
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| Song of the Pilhaou-Thibaou | 258 |
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| The Dadas Visit Paris | 259 |
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| Ninie | 259 |
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| FRANCIS PICABIA IS AN IDIOT: ANTI-DADA, 1921–1924 | |
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| M. Picabia Separates from the Dadas | 262 |
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| Francis Picabia and Dada | 264 |
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| Shingles | 266 |
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| 391 | 268 |
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| [Aphorisms] | 269 |
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| Masterpiece | 269 |
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| [Aphorisms] | 271 |
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| [Aphorisms] | 272 |
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| The Pilhaou-Thibaou | 272 |
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| [Untitled] | 274 |
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| Almanac | 274 |
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| [Untitled] | 275 |
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| Fumigations | 275 |
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| The Cacodylic Eye | 277 |
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| [Handout] | 279 |
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| Marijuana | 280 |
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| The Pine Cone | 282 |
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| Replies to a Survey | 286 |
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| Hurdy-Gurdy | 286 |
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| Up to a Certain Point | 288 |
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| Thoughts and Memories | 291 |
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| Easy Effect | 291 |
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| [Untitled] | 293 |
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| My Hand Trembles | 293 |
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| History of Seeing | 294 |
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| Pithecomorphs | 295 |
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| Typeravings | 295 |
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| Travel Souvenirs: The Colonial Exposition of Marseilles | 297 |
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| [Untitled] | 299 |
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| Thank You Francis! | 299 |
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| Electrargol | 301 |
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| [Untitled] | 302 |
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| Blind Man's Bluff | 302 |
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| Irreceptive | 303 |
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| Tambourine | 304 |
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| With Francis Picabia | 305 |
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| Poetic Hypertrophy—Tobacco—Trophic Hyperpoetry | 307 |
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| [Reply] | 309 |
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| 391 | 309 |
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| Guillaume Apollinaire | 310 |
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| Dadaism, Instantanism | 313 |
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| [Untitled] | 314 |
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| Scenario for Entr'acte | 314 |
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| Relâche | 315 |
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| Interview on Entr'acte | 317 |
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| Instantanism | 317 |
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| Scenario for Cinesketch, 1924 | 319 |
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| Picabia Told Me . . . Before Cinesketch at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées | 321 |
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| SLACK DAYS: AFTER DADA, 1925–1939 | |
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| [On Land Speculation] | 324 |
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| Picabia's Profession of Faith | 324 |
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| Picabia Versus Dada, or The Return to Reason | 325 |
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| Thoughts | 328 |
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| [Untitled] | 328 |
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| The Law of Accommodation among the One-Eyed | 329 |
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| Slack Days | 340 |
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| General Prescription No. 555 | 343 |
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| [Untitled] | 344 |
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| Notice | 344 |
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| I AM A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER: 1939–1949 | |
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| Poems of Dingalari | 346 |
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| Thalassa in the Desert | 361 |
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| Explorations | 372 |
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| H W P S M T B | 375 |
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| The Future-Child | 375 |
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| Three Little Poems | 376 |
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| Mystical Explanations | 377 |
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| Painters and Their Action at a Distance | 378 |
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| [Untitled] | 379 |
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| Precaution | 379 |
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| In a Church | 380 |
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| Or Else | 381 |
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| A Matter of Taste | 381 |
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| Cloakroom | 382 |
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| I'VE NEVER BELIEVED IN MYSELF: LATE WRITINGS, 1950–1953 | |
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| Chi-lo-sa | 385 |
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| I've Never Believed | 405 |
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| For and Against | 405 |
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| The Least Effort | 408 |
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| Poetic Humor | 409 |
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| What I Desire Is a Matter of Indifference to Me, Whether I Can Get It, That's What Counts | 416 |
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| Sunday | 416 |
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| The Masked Saint | 417 |
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| 591 | 418 |
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| [Untitled] | 421 |
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| Don't Think Badly of Me Anymore | 421 |
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| Mounted Flower | 422 |
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| Are We Not Betrayed by Seriousness | 428 |
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| [Reply to a Survey] | 436 |
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| Yes No Yes No Yes No | 437 |
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| A Madman Who Goes Mad | 441 |
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| MY PENCIL BUCKLES: POSTHUMOUS WRITINGS | |
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| Alarm Clock | 444 |
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| Tomorrow Sunday | 445 |
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| I Must Dream | 446 |
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| Song Caressed by the Desperate Scent | 446 |
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| My Pencil Buckles | 447 |
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| [Untitled] | 448 |
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| Or Else One Doesn't Dream | 448 |
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| Let Chance Overflow | 449 |
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| Notes | 451 |
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| Bibliography | 476 |
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