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Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries (A Calderbook, CB 358)

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you won't find an explanation of what dada is, simply because it cannot be explained. dada is the anarchism in a french female-boxer soul. is an excellent literary book. not a college research book.

As can be seen by some of the reviews, this goes waaaaaay over some peoples heads. For others, it changes lives. I am of the latter category, and i will never be the same after having read this book.

All manifestos are the biographies of feeble and bitter love. Dada is, therefore, an impotent rapist. Still, Tzara is a charming and likable fellow.

If you want to know what Dada is, then Dada wants nothing to do with you. Approach this book at your own peril.

Dada is against death. Definition is death. This book does not commit murder. Therefore it does not define Dada. It is Dada....

MMMMMMMMMMM plastic fishy. Tzara lights yer neighbor's curtain on fire. Yummy blasphemy, beautiful bedroom eyes darting with paranoia all around a crowded room. Devilish leer, "small and dark", this is IT.

I checked this book out from my local library because Dadaism was mentioned in my Design class, and it sounded interesting. I wanted to learn more about it. I found this book to be very confusing and not very informative at all. It seems that they wrote this so abstract on purpose (which they may have). Although the final essay, lecture on dada, was informative and the essay was, on poetry, was very good. I'd recommend this book just for those two lampistries.