{"id":15721,"date":"2018-01-07T11:35:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=15721"},"modified":"2018-01-07T11:35:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:35:15","slug":"today-on-the-70th-anniversary-of-kurt-schwitters-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/today-on-the-70th-anniversary-of-kurt-schwitters-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, on the 70th Anniversary of Kurt Schwitter’s Death…"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>… he is ever so alive! Below, a little piece by Kurtchen translated by Jerome Rothenberg & myself from our book pppppp<\/strong> (still available from amazon<\/a> or\u00a0exact change)<\/a><\/div>\n
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THE GREAT ARDOR OF DADA<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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A Funeral March<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Ardor bleeds Ardors bleed blood.. Merz greening tempest, charge at the clocks. The churchtower rises a pervert clawing of claws (it goes without saying). Claws on top claws, pervert, claws; smackeroo. \u00a0Blamm. \u00a0Do slosh fish rumble lama guck (it\u2019s a Kaiser\u2019s Day special!) fish do unleaf itself deep inside slowly sea zepellins…. Rages, rages, rages — sea raging fish, airs, zepellin. The turtledove drops drops (where?), drops skim stash halfway up (O Anna Blossom, my lovely miss, did you ever read anything like this?) \u00a0My corpse is too large, in the night \u2014 crumbles, crumbles, crumbles \u2014 too large is my corpse. Waters whip unsoftened valley \u2014 crumbles, crumbles, crumbles \u2014 too large is my corpse, giants arch dome into crumbs \u2014 crumbles, crumbles, crumbles, my corpse is too large, Cagliostro’s shroud \u2014 crumbles crumbles crumbles \u2014 my corpse is too large, for the orphanage alms-for-the-poor \u2014 crumbles crumbles crumbles \u2014 too large is my corpse, Elvis Broomsticker \u2014 ticker ticker ticker \u2014 too large is your corpse, Elvis wheels aflicker \u2014 ticker ticker ticker \u2014 too large is your corpse (you believe it?). The fish catch mice from behind.<\/div>\n
Pretty damn strange. Meaning: strangely damn pretty. Therefore: pretty damn strange. Meaning: pretty damn sharp. A pretty sharp vein, meaning: vain. Very much all in vain. Fishes stuttering heehee and hoho, railroads fly through the air with their tails up front in a spiral, from back and from front, the way railroads run foreward and back. \u2014 Have you ever seen a locomotive turn front into back? \u00a0Ne\u2019er in air will they ever turn front into back (sayeth Air Force ace Ace!) \u2014 All that\u2019s left us is this: \u201cDive down, dive down, into soft eiderdown.\u201d<\/div>\n
Let me explain: Dada is the large root of all the little roots. Secret overwires undermining ardors (from behind). – Dada is the little rootlet, the little wire of sublime grace (I write this here as an illuminati). Dada is the large sacred wave that goes from Dada unto Dada. In Dada Dada floats a river around Dada. Around Dada Dada dadaizes dadaizing (let this be said for those who still don’t know it). \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0To Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada Dada. To Dadadadadadadadadadada dadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada.<\/div>\n
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PJ\/JR<\/div>\n
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… he is ever so alive! Below, a little piece by Kurtchen translated by Jerome Rothenberg & myself from our book pppppp (still available from amazon or\u00a0exact change) THE GREAT ARDOR OF DADA \u00a0...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,103,1],"tags":[466],"class_list":["post-15721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-translation","category-uncategorized","tag-kurt-schwitters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15726,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15721\/revisions\/15726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}