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A Game Plan: The terms of Surrealism

“Take a newspaper.

Take some scissors.

Choose an article of the length

you wish your poem to have.

Cut out the article.

Then cut out carefully each of the words in

the article and put them in a bag.

Shake gently.

Then pull out each cutting one after the other.

Copy them down conscientiously

in the order in which they left the bag.

The poem will resemble you.

And you will be a writer of infinite originality and of

charming sensitivity, although incomprehensible to the masses”.

- Tristan Tzara.

Hannah Höch

1) “Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany”, 1919-1920, photomontage and collage with watercolor, 114 x 90 cm.