[lbo-talk] Dada

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 2/8/07, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> Yoshie:
>
>
> Grandstanding is fun, and fun is good, according to the ethos of LBO-talk.
> :->
>
> Seriously, human beings have an ancient desire for the heroic mode of
> rhetoric.  The epic is the oldest genre of poetry.
>
>
> [WS:] Granted.  But what if that mode undercuts the chances of achieving a
> real life success?
>
> Wojtek

War has a way of moving people to write manifestos.  If the heroic
mode doesn't suit you, try the mock-heroic mode.  On 8 February 1916,
at a cabaret in Zurich, Tristan Tzara and his friends proclaimed the
advent of Dada.  Today is the 91st anniversary.

Cf.
<http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/collection.htm>
<http://cf.geocities.com/dadatextes/>
-- 
Yoshie
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