Strasbourg Configuration

1.

     i was born in nature.  i was born is strasbourg.  i was born in
a cloud.  i was born in a pump.  i was born in a robe.
   i have four natures.  i have two things.  i have five senses.  sense and
non-sense.  nature is senseless.  make way for nature.  nature is a white
eagle.  make dada-way for dada-nature.
   i model out a book with five buttons.  artis-tree of sculpture is a
dark stupidity.

2.

   the nymph works hard at living.
   the general has an essential role in nature.
   the pyramid pump has four buttons and two holes.  in nature the
pyramid pump pumps black birds.  i pump nature.  you pump art.
   strasbourg is in a cloud.  five brooms are on the ground.  four brooms
are sitting.  two brooms are standing.
   you know nature is a button.  you know nature is a black hole.  you
know art is a black hole.  a cloud in each hole.  model a hole in each
hole and in that hole two holes and in each of those two holes four
holes and in each of those four holes five holes.
   the cloud pump is overjoyed to pump clouds from the robes.  the
cloud pump pumps against the artificial robe of the nymph.

3.

   i was born in strasbourg.
   i have published five volumes of poetry.  the titles of these books are
der vogel selbdritt-- die wolkenpumpe-- der pyramidenrock-- weisst du
schwarzt du-- vier knopfe zwei locher vier besen.
   in zurich in 1916 dada was born in joy.  dada is for the senseless
which is not non-sense.  dada is as senseless as nature and life.  dada is
for nature and against art.  like nature dada wishes to assign each thing
to its essential place.
   furthermore i work hard sitting and standing at sculpture.  no one
can prove that i ever modeled a nymph a general or an eagle.

4.

   you know no one can prove to me that i am not an eagle.  the eagle
works hard at life.  you know the eagle has five lives and four natures.
you know the eagle also has a title.  you know the general has five
titles five buttons on his two senses and four holes in his joys.  but
nature and i are against these joys and things that are born.  nature
works hard at life whether sitting or standing.  the black cloud in the
white robe joyfully gives birth to a bird-thing.

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