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DOI Artikel:Juszkiewicz, Piotr: The designs and sketches of Marcel Duchamp
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P. JUSZKIEWICZ
,,Isolated cage
in which would take place
the storms and the
line werathers of the wasp"^ (i.e. the Bride)
(which undoubtedly possesses an esthetic value).
The tale of the Bride and the Bachelors is further characterised by
the fact that its information value for us is small or almost
non-existent. The tale takes place in a singular world, in the realm
of which everything is lucid, but becomes unclear when we reach
out beyond the context of that world. All the more so, as the tale,
using specific terms has a self-closing quality, seeking justification
within its own realm. Let us study an example:
,,The motor with quite feeble cylinders
is a superficial organ of the bride, it is
activated by the love gasoline, a secretion of the
bride's sexual glands, and by the electric sparks
of the stripping''^.
The motor is thus started up by love gasoline and the electric
sparks of the stripping and next, it triggers the whole action of
stripping.
One could say that the specific way the tale of the Bride and the
Bachelors is told resembles the linguist's sentence: ,,A maggy ienar
dagly micked a suttle manton", which attempts to present the
semantic dimension of grammar. The sentence carries the infor-
mation that a lenar, which is maggy, micked (and dagly at that) some
suttle manton. But until an internal system of references is produced,
we are unable to obtain any other information. Thus our store of
knowledge about the Bride and the Bachelors makes sense only
within its own sphere due to the lack of contextual references. Critics
have to seek such references outside the reconstructed tale. As-
sociated with the notes on the principle of an allegoric reading, the
senses are in such a situation easy to summon, while the quasi-poetic
language and form of notation make that all the easier.
Sometimes, a number of themes meet in the realm of one note.
That is often true particularly in the case of notes concerning the
technical aspects ot the Giass and the tale about the Bride and the
^ Notes and Projects..., s. 116.
s Op. cit., s. 30.
P. JUSZKIEWICZ
,,Isolated cage
in which would take place
the storms and the
line werathers of the wasp"^ (i.e. the Bride)
(which undoubtedly possesses an esthetic value).
The tale of the Bride and the Bachelors is further characterised by
the fact that its information value for us is small or almost
non-existent. The tale takes place in a singular world, in the realm
of which everything is lucid, but becomes unclear when we reach
out beyond the context of that world. All the more so, as the tale,
using specific terms has a self-closing quality, seeking justification
within its own realm. Let us study an example:
,,The motor with quite feeble cylinders
is a superficial organ of the bride, it is
activated by the love gasoline, a secretion of the
bride's sexual glands, and by the electric sparks
of the stripping''^.
The motor is thus started up by love gasoline and the electric
sparks of the stripping and next, it triggers the whole action of
stripping.
One could say that the specific way the tale of the Bride and the
Bachelors is told resembles the linguist's sentence: ,,A maggy ienar
dagly micked a suttle manton", which attempts to present the
semantic dimension of grammar. The sentence carries the infor-
mation that a lenar, which is maggy, micked (and dagly at that) some
suttle manton. But until an internal system of references is produced,
we are unable to obtain any other information. Thus our store of
knowledge about the Bride and the Bachelors makes sense only
within its own sphere due to the lack of contextual references. Critics
have to seek such references outside the reconstructed tale. As-
sociated with the notes on the principle of an allegoric reading, the
senses are in such a situation easy to summon, while the quasi-poetic
language and form of notation make that all the easier.
Sometimes, a number of themes meet in the realm of one note.
That is often true particularly in the case of notes concerning the
technical aspects ot the Giass and the tale about the Bride and the
^ Notes and Projects..., s. 116.
s Op. cit., s. 30.