NONSENSE

It is impossible to write nonsense. There is more sense in nonsense than anything else.  If each letter has its meaning, then any combination of letters has meaning.  If somebody, in an attack of jealousy, spite or love, starts to write words in an arbitrary assortment (as happens when people are roused) then what he is really doing is to give a flow of words immediately (without his reason controlling them), words which reflect this feeling and which even outgrow it.  Therefore, there are no completely irrational works.   And in our day this is being proved by the fact that now, as never before, the work of savages, children, flagellants and the mentally ill is being studied.  And now we have the final conclusion – to leave reason aside and to write in a language which has not yet congealed and which has not been labeled with concepts – to write in metalogical language!  Let it be absurd, incomprehensible, monstrous.

Kruchenykh in Proffer/Futurism

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