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Originally Posted by Reaper16
I'm reading a book that is likely far stranger than anything anyone else on this forum would want to read (with the exception of Hamas). It is called The Post-Human Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess by Andrei Codrescu. Its an instructional text about how to live a life in spirit with Dada in what Codrescu dubs the "post-human age," where technology and availability of information is seemingly infinite. The text is set up against the backdrop of an imagined game of chess played between Tristan Tsara (perhaps THE founder of Dada) and Vladdy Lenin, setting up an argument that the 20th century was in large part an intellectual contest between Dada and Communism.
The book is part historical text, part scholarly criticism, part funny essay and altogether strange and kind of brilliant.
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Codrescu lives in Arkansas, now. Exquisite Corpse (and the Oxford American) is housed in my hometown of Conway.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- H. L. Mencken
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