Tristan Tzara - dada manifesto on feeble love and bitter love

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DADA is a virgin microbe
DADA is against the high cost of living
DADA
limited company for the exploitation of ideas
DADA has 391 different attitudes and colours according to the sex of the president
It changes ? affirms ? says the opposite at the same time ? no importance? shouts ?goes fishing.
Dada is the chameleon of rapid and self?interested change.
Dada is against the future. Dada is dead. Dada is absurd. Long live Dada.
Dada is not a literary school, howl

from dada manifesto on feeble love and bitter love
- Tristan Tzara


If I have ever been seduced or corrupted by a particular dogma or orthodoxy it was the anti-dogma of Dada and if Dada has an (un)holy scripture to rival the Psalms it is the poems and manifesto's of Tristan Tzara. The austere earnestness of Tzara's emphatic declarations coupled with the puckish absurdity of the wordplay yields a novel sensation of extreme emotion borne of intellectual discourse.

Tzara demands that you join him in zealotic commitment to a cheap joke and in so doing liberates the reader from the mundane and conscribes her in his plot of poetical terror.


dada manifesto on feeble love and bitter love

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