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« And there I bumped into Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp.
The latter led me aside mysteriously and asked me in a low tone if I would like to have a little notice of my book put in a review called Orbes which appears every three months. I said yes naturally. And then later I went to have a look at this Orbes in Corti's bookshop. I don't know what to make of it. But the way Marcel Duchamp grabbed hold of me made me feel that he was doing me a real favour. »
p. 165 JUNG, à propos de l'homme passé et l'homme moderne
p. 168 QUENEAU
p. 169 CENDRARS
p. 175 : les Gueules cassées. Quelle naïveté...
« I thought last night to send a confidential letter to the American Ambassador at Paris, urging him to get together the ‘Gueules Cassées’ of the whole of Europe, ship them to Hitler in airplanes, as a demonstration of the last resort. To have them say to Hitler that they would not leave his presence until he made peace – and if he refused to place themselves in a huge body at the Czschoslovak frontier, where the Germans would invade, and notify the German people that they would have to walk over their dead bodies if they intended to march in. That would be dramatic and spectacular [...] Think what an effect it would have on the whole world if these horrible mutilated men went in a body to Hitler – or camped on the border and met his army!! » La lettre date de 1938...

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