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The Dada of Clark & Essary

Note this text was extracted from Richard Kosteliniz's
PA press book on modern aesthetics (which either he or
they espelled esthetics, senior ole!)

Carl D. Clark and Loris Essary

"Semi-constructs of the Secre'tarie
 du Registre" (without quotes marks)

(serifed, kerned font, bold; poss Times London of Paris, 
 approximately correctly indented; with garnie)

[P. 128]


Semi-constructs of the Secre'tarie
du Registre


      And, so, we sit around passing the time and confusi
   on grows . . . . an incredible sense of what is the pu
   rpose if you know what I mean. What Tzara might have c
   alled a feeling of oildrums and peonies. Amid this dol
   or, what is art? The seas seem calm. Deception. A feel
   ing of perhaps this is a 
   sign of          growing   A person said to us: "How c
   old; pe          rhaps a  an you hope to convert peopl
   n indic (grace)  ation o  e if they don't understand w
   f not a          dmittin  hat you're doing?" Another a
   g something that should   sked if we were getting mone
   be said, of not properly  y from the highway departmen
   administering slaps to s  t. On the whole, the second
   ome people's psychic fac  question is less insulting t
   es.                       han the first.

      How hard it is when everything encourages us to sle
   ep, though we may look about us with cautions, clingin
   g eye, to wake and yet look about
                        us as in a d  The reversal of mea
   In a certain sense,  ream, with e  ning that accompani
   everything is ever   yes that no   es the apocalypse i
   ywhere at all time   longer know   s one that reaches
   s.                   their functi  into all aspects of
     -Alfred North      on and whose  our social and indi
         Whitehead      gaze is turn  vidual lives, and r
                        ed inward.    eaches back into ou
   It would be incredi    - Artaud    r history, the hist
   bly inconvenie                     ory of Western thou
   nt to have an   ght. Its implication is that the "good
   unambiguous la  life" is one of the most vicious man h
   nguage, and, t  as produced . . . . our mania for clea
   herefore, merc  nliness, sanity, decorum, and moderati
   ifully, we hav  on only serves to heighten our dirt, a
   e not got one.  adness, barbarism, and excess.
     -Bertrand                  -John Vernon
         Russell                     

IMAGE: 

TEXT (of content, quite similar: 
(
Reprinted from Interstate, no. 2 (1974), by permission of the authors, Copyright (c) 1974
Interstate Magazine
                    ** (small smudge-mark)
128
)

[P. 129]




 
   No man lives in external truth among salts and acids,
   but in the warm phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, w
   ith the painted windows and the storied walls.
                          -William James

   A work is "eternal" not because it imposes a single me
   aning on different man, but because it suggests the di
   fferent meanings to a                   single man, sp
   eaking the same symbo  The borders of   lic language i
   n all ages: the work   my language ar   proposes, man
   disposes. Every reade  e the borders    r who is prepa
   red to resist being i  of my world.     ntimidated by
   the letter knows this;   -Wittgenstein  into contact w
   ith what lies BEYOND                    the text, as t
   hough the primary language of the work gave rise to ot
   her words in him, teaching him a new tongue? That is w
   hat we call dreaming. 




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