"It's not the light that's attracting me, but the darkness that's driving me on.
They bang on about the obvious, want to cover it in thick layers so as no longer to see the obscure, and, after pages of equations, finally get down to formulating 0 = 0.
I (and I state it with all necessary pride) like roads leading nowhere and featureless, pathless countrysides, I dissect the inevident, I grill the incidental, I relish the fortuitous, and, at the very end of my zig-zagging, I take pleasure in formulating, for example: Paul Claudel (or whatever you like) = Q."
"Our business is with sniffed-out complicities and the open secret, laughter refused although affected and earnestness treacherously encouraged, the savoring of the pure spectacle of imbecility in its triumphal necessity...
Our distinguishing signs: fake wit, the apt response inaptly timed, the joke that falls flat, conniving gravity, the lame pun, subtly clumsy bad taste..."
"Nobody has ever given me orders. If some have reckoned to do so (in the army), I never noticed it. I have no need to have a world that's in order. I have never given myself an order."
-Julien Torma
from 4 Dada Suicides [Atlas Anti-Classics]
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