WORK AGAINFasten it fat we say Aunt Pauline.Not snow now nor that in between.Now we are bold.All the weights are measures.Splendid.Are they plateful.Girls are.Women.Treasures in song.I see a mountain wheelerI see a capstan.I see a straight.I see a rattle.All things are breathing.Can you see me.Hurrah for America.A day's sun.In this miss.Yes indeed our mat.We can thank youWe thank you.Come together.Come to me there now.All of it is bit.Bitter.In the meaning of bright.Bright not light.Light to me.Then say the essence.Not a nightingale.Wild animals are not fierce neither are sponges.Can you see her dressed or him.In this way we cough.What can a mayor do.In this new school. In this new school they are ladies. And now you mention gifts.And lists.Can you believe.Then then.All the leaves.All the hotels.All the boils.Cooks cook.We are so happy.In the land.You mean a lady.Can we have imagination.They ask have we a stocking.Did he die to drink.We have to.It is not a joke.A vicar is not a joke.Did he die there because he was mortal and we leave Rivesaltes.Be nice to me.In the kiss.Laps indeed.Can you say lapse.Then think about it.I think kindly of that bother.It is not a bother to be a soldier.Indeed it is yet.We are so pleased.With the flag.With the flag of sets.Sets of colorDo you like flags.Blue flags smell sweetly.Blue flags in a whirl.The wind blowsAnd the automobile goes.Can you guess boards.Wood.Can you guess hoops.Barrels.Can you guess girls.Servants.Can you guess messages.In deed.Then there are meats to buy.We like asparagus so.This is an interview.Soldiers like a fuss.Give them their way.Yes indeed we will.We are not mightyNor merry.We are happy.Very.In the morning.We believe in the morningDo we.Please be an interview.Please be an interview with dogs.Please comfort me.Please plan a game.Please then and places.In the meantime.In the meantime we are useful.That is what I mean to say.In the meantime can you have beds.Kindly call a brother.What is a cure.I speak french.What are means.I can call it in time.By the way where are fish.In that case are there any wonders.Many wonders are women.And men tooWe smile.In the way sentences.He does not feel as we do.But he did have the coat.He blushed a littleCook.In the tenth century chateau.Who they are we do not know.But we know they tell us so they tell us that in that way.Why do we believe in Cook.We do not hear from him.In a Casino.Waiting tomorrow yes yet.And then we think.We think often of pens.Near silk.In times of peace.In times of peacePrepare meals.This is what was said to usBut we do not believe.We wait.We come.In that way we feel.And is it uselessIt is not uselessSaturday.Statuatory.In that case.In that case what.Are you satisfied.Certainly with me.Then we have the use of it.Indeed yes.We are agreed.In the case of mothers.Aunt Pauline.How did you pronounce it.It was in doubt.In this way we mention this.This is the story of it.He was her uncle and nervous.In their way they had a black police dog.In his way he had neither relief nor expeditions.In this thing he was not patient.If they gave him the money to clean the gutters need they shut the tobacco shops.You don't understand thatIf they gave him money for the cleaning of city pipes need he have orders to close butchers.We can understand the universal. This is universal.What is the difference between one order and a reading. A great many read in a park.Words question it bakeries threaten it but reallyhotels receive it. Do we hear about books. Do we. And catalogues. And catalogues. Farmers for speech. A great many vines are said to be sold. In France. And in wealthy homes too. We do not understand the weather. That astonishes me.Can you think of me.Confess it confess it weather burns and in that case there is plenty of sausage.Can you think of me at.In all cases keep afraid.And then what happens.Nothing.Are you sure nothing.Of course not.You are not just saying it.You know you have your wish.Thank you in smiles.Then we seeVery well.You did not mean to say so.No but I know I am rightYou always are.This is a paragraph.Then it will be wellYes and a fit.You mean fitly.Yes slowly.And then no worryNot at allThank you for saying that.Many cases are fine.In that way we wish.We think.We recover.In that way we swim. Camelias finish when roses begin.Let me tell you about this. We were disappointed incards. And yet we need not be. We will have them.In the beginning pinks you mean flowers yes smell.And pansies too.Sacred heart pansies.These are the best.Can we wonder about cookies. Not those that have no flour.Sacred heart doughnuts.Pansies I said.Camelias.Camelias.I do not care to mention it again.I do it.How do I not.It is astonishing that those who have fought so hard and so well should pick yellow irises and fish in a stream.They have mistaken their doctor.He was an oculist.And then there wereAnd then they werePlease spell a dish.I do not like called a flower,Repeat cuckooShe always makes a mistakeIn french.Castle anew.And then the sister.Can you feel a home.When I see it.See it with them.And then a pansy.I did not ask for it.It smells.A sweet smellWith AcaciaCall it locustsCall it me.Barrels.In comparison what are horses.Compared with that again what are bells.You mean horns. No I mean noises.In leaning can we encounter oil.I meant this to be intelligible.We were taking a trip. We found the roads not noisy but pleasurable and the shade there was pleasant. We found that the trees had been planted so as to make rows. This is almost universal.In coming to a village we ask them can they come to see us we mean near enough to talk and then we ask them how do we go there.This is not fanciful.In advance we have spoken, of what, can you imagine obedience as a subject. It is. It is laughable when there is no need of any backing. Can you understand that in two ways.We mean to be lean. Lean to me. And then what a girl. No girl and Emil. We like fresh cooking. So does anybody.No everybody doesn't.The right spirit. There are difficulties and they must be met in the right spirit.This is an illustration of the difficulties we have in many ways.Then we go on.I have made up my mind not to be excited.In speeding I speed.In neglecting I do not offer anything.In reason I reverse the car and in this way we are successful.We have no worries.What can you think of a bone.It is useless to think.Digestion.In that way we do not prey.We write of fish.And then I have been careful.It is all imagination.Can you sing rightly.A trunk locked up in Perpignan.In this way we pass the hay.I have reasoned.I am convinced.I do not argue.Or play the piano.As the daughters of the banker do.This is now the book in which I write and receive.Can you guess Beziers.Was I right.You are.Indeed there are barrels.TOURTY OR TOURTEBATTREA STORY OF THE GREAT WARTourtebattre came to visit us in the court he said he heard Americans were in town and he came to see us and we said what is your name and what americans have you known and we said we would go to see him and we did not and we did not give him anything.Then when we went out to see the hospital we did not take him anything. We asked to see him. Then when the new things came we did take a package to him and we did not see him but he came and called on us to thank us and we were out.Reflections.If I must reflect I reflect upon Ann Veronica. This is not what is intended. Mrs. Tourtebattre. Of this we know nothing.Can we reflect one for another.Profit and loss is three twenty five never two seventy five.Yes that is the very easy force, decidedly not.Then Tourtebattre used to come all the time and then he used to tell us how old he was when he was asked and he took sugar in his coffee as it was given to him. He was not too old to be a father he was thirty seven and he had three children and he told us that he liked to turn a phrase.China. Whenever he went to the colonies his sister was hurt in an automobile accident. This did not mean that she suffered.Some one thought she was killed. Will you please put that in.His father's watch, his wife gave all his most precious belongings to a man who did not belong to the town he said he belonged to. We did not know the truth of this.Reflections.We should not color our hero with his wife's misdeeds. Because you see he may be a religion instead of a talker. Little bones have to come out of his hand for action this was after his wound. A good deal.He was wounded in the attack in April right near where he was always going to visit his wife and he saw the church tower and then he was immediately evacuated to an american hospital where every one was very American and very kind and Miss Bell tried to talk french to him and amuse him but overcome with her difficulties with the french language she retired which made him say she was very nice and these stories that he told to us you told to Sister Cecile which did not please her and she said we must come and hear from every one else the stories they all told of the kindness they had received in the American hospital before they came to her and she said to them what did the major do, and they said he played ball. He did. And you too and all of them said, no sister but you were wounded in an attack. We were both wounded, said the soldier.Reflections.Reflections on Sister Cecile lead us to believe that she did not reflect about Friday but about the book in which she often wrote. We were curious. She wrote this note. This is it. Name life, wife, deed, wound, weather, food, devotion, and expression.What did he ask for.Why I don't know.Why don't you know.I don't call that making literature at all.What has he asked for.I call literature telling a story as it happens.Facts of life make literature.I can always feel rightly about that.We obtained beads for him and our own pictures in it.Dear pictures of us.We can tell anything over.We gave him colored beads and he made them with paper that he bought himself of two different colors into frames that we sent with our pictures to our cousins and our papas in America.Can we say it.We cannot.Now.Then he told us about his wife and his child.He does not say anything about them now.Some immediate provision was necessary.We said in English these are the facts which we are bringing to your memory.What is capitol.He told us of bead buttons and black and white. He answered her back very brightly.He is a man.Reflections.What were the reflections.Have we undertaken too much.What is the name of his wife.They were lost. We did not look forward. We did not think much. How long would he stay. Our reflections really came later.The first thing we heard from her was that the woman was not staying and had left her new address.How do you do.We did not look her up.Her mother and her mother.Can you think why Marguerite did not wish Jenny Picard to remain longer.Because she stole.Not really.Yes indeed. Little things.This will never do.And then.I said we must go to see her.And you said we will see.One night, no one day she called with her mother.Who was very good looking.She was very good looking.And the little boy.Can you think of the little boy.They both said that they were not polite.But they were.Reflections can come already.We believed her reasons were real reasons.Who is always right.Not she nor her eleven sisters.No one knew who was kind to her.What is kindness.Kindness is being soft or good and has nothing to do with amiable. Albert is kind and good.And their wives.Can you tell the difference between wives and children.Queen Victoria and Queen Victoria.They made you jump.And I said the mother you said the mother. I did not remember the mother was in Paris but you did.NEXT.LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARCEL DUCHAMPA family likeness pleases when there is a cessation of resemblances. This is to say that points of remarkable resemblance are those which make Henry leading. Henry leading actually smothers Emil. Emil is pointed. He does not overdo examples. He even hesitates.But am I sensible. Am I not rather efficient in sympathy or common feeling.I was looking to see if I could make Marcel out of it but I can't.Not a doctor to me not a debtor to me not a d to me but a c to me a credit to me. To interlace a story with glass and with rope with color and roam.How many people roam.Dark people roam.Can dark people come from the north. Are they dark then. Do they begin to be dark when they have come from there.Any question leads away from me. Grave a boy grave.What I do recollect is this. I collect black and white. From the standpoint of white all color is color. From the standpoint of black. Black is white. White is black. Black is black. White is black. White and black is black and white. What I recollect when I am there is that words are not birds. How easily I feel thin. Birds do not. So I replace birds with tin-foil. Silver is thin.Life and letters of Marcel Duchamp.Quickly return the unabridged restraint and mention letters.My dear Fourth.Confess to me in a quick saying. The vote is taken.The lucky strike works well and difficultly. It rounds, it sounds round. I cannot conceal attrition. Let me think. I repeat the fullness of bread. In a way not bread. Delight me. I delight a lamb in birth.LAND OF NATIONS.[Sub-title And Ask Asia]After these introductions I wish to say something I wish to say that I am entirely agreed that the best way to meet together is to deny that you wish to spend money. We don't want to spend the money.They went to spend their money. We all spend our money in this way I spend my money and what do I have. I have a car. That is to say I have spent my money. I do spend my money but not in this way. I do not spend my money in this way. I spend my money. Did you say you had the money. Indeed indeed I believe you there. This is a country. A fine country. This is a fine country. Let us begin with this one which is this country entirely and in this order.Then we have the country. Let us imagine the country. A country with a wait and wait by me and wait by me and always always always always wait and always wait and always wait and always always wait and wait by me. This is the country I have mentioned. It means to be with us. Then there is a very late country and we wish to embark we wish to embark it altogether. In the midst of money we are whistling.Continuation.JessieI am angry. Have you been.I am angry with a din.I am angry so you see.Egypt and for Syrie.I am angry as you hear.I am angry for the bier.I am angry for the waist.I am angry in the taste.I am angry to the touch.You can make me see that much.I am angry and I sigh.England will be going by.Going to buy not going to buy.I am angry and I sigh.And then in the midst of smoke there was Fiume. I can never make a poem about Italy. About Italy you do, you address, bless and say adieu. Adieu Italy beautiful Italy adieu.A great many countries have a name.Let me think of the house and the best.A house a boat a victory and an alert. In the way of rhyming. I can think of so much. Dirt, flirt and spurt. Do you see any difference. I do. Discourage England, and say you mean well.Here is a poem.Amber.Ambler Curran.Amber is found on the shores of the Baltic.Like wild asparagus you must have an eye for it.All animals howl.All animals or a barnyard fowl.All animals are starsAll animals and bars.Please pay a monkey a dear or a sweet.Please pay a lion a pheasant or a street.Please recognize a mother a head or an owl.Please recognize a feather a heather or a soul. Please recognize the weather. What do you live for.Climate and the affections. Jews quote that.ACCENTS IN ALSACE.A REASONABLE TRAGEDY.Act I. The Schemils.Brother brother go away and stay.Sister mother believe me I say.They will never get me as I run away.He runs away and stays away and strange to say he passes the lines and goes all the way and they do not find him but hear that he is there in the foreign legion in distant Algier.And what happens to the family.The family manages to get along and then some one of his comrades in writing a letter which is gotten hold of by the Boche find he is a soldier whom they cannot touch, so what do they do they decide to embrew his mother and sister and father too. And how did they escape by payingsombodymoney.That is what you did with the Boche. You always paid some money to some one it might be a colonel or it might be a sergeant but anyway you did it and it wasneccesaryso then what happened.The Schemmels.Sing so la douse so la dim.Un deux troisCan you tell me whaIs it indeed.What you call a Petide.And then what do I say to theeLet me kiss thee willingly.Not a mountain not a goat not a door.Not a whisper not a curl not a goreIn me meeney miney mo.You are my love and I tell you so.In the daylightAnd the nightBaby winks and holds me tight.In the morning and the day and the evening andalway.I hold my baby as I say.Completely.And what is an accent of my wife.And accent and the present life.Oh sweet oh my oh sweet oh myI love you love you and I tryI try not to be nasty and hasty and goodI am my little baby's daily food.Alsatia.In the exercise of greatness there is charm.Believe me I mean to do you harm.And except you have a stomach to alarm.I mean to scatter so you are to arm.Let me go.And the Alsatians say.What has another prince a birthday.Now we come back to the Schemmils.Schimmel Schimmel Gott in HimmelGott in Himmel There comes Shimmel.Schimmel is an Alsatian name.Act II.It is a little thing to expect nobody to sell what you give them.It is a little thing to be a minister.It is a little thing to manufacture articles.All this is modest.The Brother.Brother brother here is mother.We are all very well.Scene.Listen to thee sweet cheerieIs the pleasure of me.In the way of being hungry and tiredThat is what a depot makes youA depot is not for trainsIts for us.What are baby carriagesHousehold goodsAnd not the dears.But dears.Another Act.Clouds do not fatten with teaching.They do not fatten at all.We wonder if it is influenceBy the way I guess.She said. I like it better than Eggland.What do you mean.We never asked how many children over eleven.You cannot imagine what I think about the country.Any civilians killed.Act II.See the swimmer. He don't swim.See the swimmer.My wife is angry when she sees a swimmer.Opening II.We like Hirsing.III.We like the mayor of Guebwiller.IV.We like the road between Cernay and the railroad.We go everywhere by automobile.Act II.This is a particular old winter.Everybody goes back.Back.I can clean.I can clean.I cannot clean without a change in birds.I am so pleased that they cheat.Act 54.In silver stars and red crosses.In paper money and water.We know a french wine.Alsatian wine is dearer.They are not particularly old.Old men are old.There are plenty to hear of Schemmel having appendicitis.Scene II.Can you mix with anotherCan you be a Christian and a Swiss.Mr. Zumsteg. Do I hear a saint.Louisa. They call me Lisela.Mrs. Zumsteg. Are you going to hear me.Young Mr. Zumsteg. I was looking at the snow.All of them. Like flowers. They like flowers.Scene III.It is an occasion.When you see a Hussar.A Zouave.A soldierAn antiquary.Perhaps it is another.We were surprised with the history of Marguerite's father and step-father and the American Civil War.Joseph. Three three six, six, fifty, six fifty, fifty, seven.Reading french.Reading french.Reading french singing.Any one can look at pictures.They explain pictures.The little children have old birds.They wish they were women.Any one can hate a Prussian.Alphonse what is your name.Henri what is your name.Madeleine what is your name.Louise what is your name.Rene what is your name.Berthe what is your nameCharles what is your nameMarguerite what is your nameJeanne what is your name.Act 425.We see a river and we are glad to say that that is in a way in the way today.We see all the windows and we see a souvenir and we see the best flower. The flower of the truth.An Interlude.Thirty days in April gave a chance to sing at a wedding.Three days in February gave reality to life.Fifty days every year do not make substraction.TheAlsationssing anyway.Forty days in September.Forty days in September we know what it is to spring.Act in America.Alsatians living in America.February XIV.On this day the troops who had been at Mulhouse came again.They came in the spring.The spring is late in Alsace.Water was good and hot anyway.What are you doing.Making music and burning the surface of marble.When the surface of marble is burned it is not much discolored.No but there is a discussion.And then the Swiss.What is amiss.The Swiss are the origin of Mulhouse.Alsace or Alsatians.We have been deeply interested in the words of the song.The Alsatians do not sing as well as their storks.Their storks are their statuettes.The rule is that angels and food and eggs are all sold by the dozen.We were astonished.And potatoesPotatoes are eaten dry.This reminds me of another thing I said. A woman likes to use money.And if not.She feels it really is her birthday.Is it her birthday.God bless her it is her birthday.Please carry me to Dannemarie.And what does Herbstadt say.The names of cities are the names of all.And pronouncing villages is more of a test than unbrella.This was the first thing we heard in Alsatia.Canary, roses, violets and curtains and bags and churches and rubber tires and an examination.All the leaves are green and babyish.How many children make a family.The Watch on the Rhine.Sweeter than water or cream or ice. Sweeter than bells of roses. Sweeter than winter or summer or spring. Sweeter than pretty posies. Sweeter than anything is my queen and loving is her nature.Loving and good and delighted and best is her little King and Sire whose devotion is entire who has but one desire to express the love which is hers to inspire.In the photograph the Rhine hardly showedIn what way do chimes remind you of singing. In what way do birds sing. In what way are forests black or white.We saw them blue.With for get me nots.In the midst of our happiness we were very pleased.
WORK AGAIN
Fasten it fat we say Aunt Pauline.
Not snow now nor that in between.
Now we are bold.
All the weights are measures.
Splendid.
Are they plateful.
Girls are.
Women.
Treasures in song.
I see a mountain wheeler
I see a capstan.
I see a straight.
I see a rattle.
All things are breathing.
Can you see me.
Hurrah for America.
A day's sun.
In this miss.
Yes indeed our mat.
We can thank you
We thank you.
Come together.
Come to me there now.
All of it is bit.
Bitter.
In the meaning of bright.
Bright not light.
Light to me.
Then say the essence.
Not a nightingale.
Wild animals are not fierce neither are sponges.
Can you see her dressed or him.
In this way we cough.
What can a mayor do.
In this new school. In this new school they are ladies. And now you mention gifts.
And lists.
Can you believe.
Then then.
All the leaves.
All the hotels.
All the boils.
Cooks cook.
We are so happy.
In the land.
You mean a lady.
Can we have imagination.
They ask have we a stocking.
Did he die to drink.
We have to.
It is not a joke.
A vicar is not a joke.
Did he die there because he was mortal and we leave Rivesaltes.
Be nice to me.
In the kiss.
Laps indeed.
Can you say lapse.
Then think about it.
I think kindly of that bother.
It is not a bother to be a soldier.
Indeed it is yet.
We are so pleased.
With the flag.
With the flag of sets.
Sets of color
Do you like flags.
Blue flags smell sweetly.
Blue flags in a whirl.
The wind blows
And the automobile goes.
Can you guess boards.
Wood.
Can you guess hoops.
Barrels.
Can you guess girls.
Servants.
Can you guess messages.
In deed.
Then there are meats to buy.
We like asparagus so.
This is an interview.
Soldiers like a fuss.
Give them their way.
Yes indeed we will.
We are not mighty
Nor merry.
We are happy.
Very.
In the morning.
We believe in the morning
Do we.
Please be an interview.
Please be an interview with dogs.
Please comfort me.
Please plan a game.
Please then and places.
In the meantime.
In the meantime we are useful.
That is what I mean to say.
In the meantime can you have beds.
Kindly call a brother.
What is a cure.
I speak french.
What are means.
I can call it in time.
By the way where are fish.
In that case are there any wonders.
Many wonders are women.
And men too
We smile.
In the way sentences.
He does not feel as we do.
But he did have the coat.
He blushed a little
Cook.
In the tenth century chateau.
Who they are we do not know.
But we know they tell us so they tell us that in that way.
Why do we believe in Cook.
We do not hear from him.
In a Casino.
Waiting tomorrow yes yet.
And then we think.
We think often of pens.
Near silk.
In times of peace.
In times of peace
Prepare meals.
This is what was said to us
But we do not believe.
We wait.
We come.
In that way we feel.
And is it useless
It is not useless
Saturday.
Statuatory.
In that case.
In that case what.
Are you satisfied.
Certainly with me.
Then we have the use of it.
Indeed yes.
We are agreed.
In the case of mothers.
Aunt Pauline.
How did you pronounce it.
It was in doubt.
In this way we mention this.
This is the story of it.
He was her uncle and nervous.
In their way they had a black police dog.
In his way he had neither relief nor expeditions.
In this thing he was not patient.
If they gave him the money to clean the gutters need they shut the tobacco shops.
You don't understand that
If they gave him money for the cleaning of city pipes need he have orders to close butchers.
We can understand the universal. This is universal.
What is the difference between one order and a reading. A great many read in a park.
Words question it bakeries threaten it but reallyhotels receive it. Do we hear about books. Do we. And catalogues. And catalogues. Farmers for speech. A great many vines are said to be sold. In France. And in wealthy homes too. We do not understand the weather. That astonishes me.
Can you think of me.
Confess it confess it weather burns and in that case there is plenty of sausage.
Can you think of me at.
In all cases keep afraid.
And then what happens.
Nothing.
Are you sure nothing.
Of course not.
You are not just saying it.
You know you have your wish.
Thank you in smiles.
Then we see
Very well.
You did not mean to say so.
No but I know I am right
You always are.
This is a paragraph.
Then it will be well
Yes and a fit.
You mean fitly.
Yes slowly.
And then no worry
Not at all
Thank you for saying that.
Many cases are fine.
In that way we wish.
We think.
We recover.
In that way we swim. Camelias finish when roses begin.
Let me tell you about this. We were disappointed incards. And yet we need not be. We will have them.
In the beginning pinks you mean flowers yes smell.
And pansies too.
Sacred heart pansies.
These are the best.
Can we wonder about cookies. Not those that have no flour.
Sacred heart doughnuts.
Pansies I said.
Camelias.
Camelias.
I do not care to mention it again.
I do it.
How do I not.
It is astonishing that those who have fought so hard and so well should pick yellow irises and fish in a stream.
They have mistaken their doctor.
He was an oculist.
And then there were
And then they were
Please spell a dish.
I do not like called a flower,
Repeat cuckoo
She always makes a mistake
In french.
Castle anew.
And then the sister.
Can you feel a home.
When I see it.
See it with them.
And then a pansy.
I did not ask for it.
It smells.
A sweet smell
With Acacia
Call it locusts
Call it me.
Barrels.
In comparison what are horses.
Compared with that again what are bells.
You mean horns. No I mean noises.
In leaning can we encounter oil.
I meant this to be intelligible.
We were taking a trip. We found the roads not noisy but pleasurable and the shade there was pleasant. We found that the trees had been planted so as to make rows. This is almost universal.
In coming to a village we ask them can they come to see us we mean near enough to talk and then we ask them how do we go there.
This is not fanciful.
In advance we have spoken, of what, can you imagine obedience as a subject. It is. It is laughable when there is no need of any backing. Can you understand that in two ways.
We mean to be lean. Lean to me. And then what a girl. No girl and Emil. We like fresh cooking. So does anybody.
No everybody doesn't.
The right spirit. There are difficulties and they must be met in the right spirit.
This is an illustration of the difficulties we have in many ways.
Then we go on.
I have made up my mind not to be excited.
In speeding I speed.
In neglecting I do not offer anything.
In reason I reverse the car and in this way we are successful.
We have no worries.
What can you think of a bone.
It is useless to think.
Digestion.
In that way we do not prey.
We write of fish.
And then I have been careful.
It is all imagination.
Can you sing rightly.
A trunk locked up in Perpignan.
In this way we pass the hay.
I have reasoned.
I am convinced.
I do not argue.
Or play the piano.
As the daughters of the banker do.
This is now the book in which I write and receive.
Can you guess Beziers.
Was I right.
You are.
Indeed there are barrels.
TOURTY OR TOURTEBATTREA STORY OF THE GREAT WAR
Tourtebattre came to visit us in the court he said he heard Americans were in town and he came to see us and we said what is your name and what americans have you known and we said we would go to see him and we did not and we did not give him anything.
Then when we went out to see the hospital we did not take him anything. We asked to see him. Then when the new things came we did take a package to him and we did not see him but he came and called on us to thank us and we were out.
Reflections.
If I must reflect I reflect upon Ann Veronica. This is not what is intended. Mrs. Tourtebattre. Of this we know nothing.
Can we reflect one for another.
Profit and loss is three twenty five never two seventy five.
Yes that is the very easy force, decidedly not.
Then Tourtebattre used to come all the time and then he used to tell us how old he was when he was asked and he took sugar in his coffee as it was given to him. He was not too old to be a father he was thirty seven and he had three children and he told us that he liked to turn a phrase.
China. Whenever he went to the colonies his sister was hurt in an automobile accident. This did not mean that she suffered.
Some one thought she was killed. Will you please put that in.
His father's watch, his wife gave all his most precious belongings to a man who did not belong to the town he said he belonged to. We did not know the truth of this.
Reflections.
We should not color our hero with his wife's misdeeds. Because you see he may be a religion instead of a talker. Little bones have to come out of his hand for action this was after his wound. A good deal.
He was wounded in the attack in April right near where he was always going to visit his wife and he saw the church tower and then he was immediately evacuated to an american hospital where every one was very American and very kind and Miss Bell tried to talk french to him and amuse him but overcome with her difficulties with the french language she retired which made him say she was very nice and these stories that he told to us you told to Sister Cecile which did not please her and she said we must come and hear from every one else the stories they all told of the kindness they had received in the American hospital before they came to her and she said to them what did the major do, and they said he played ball. He did. And you too and all of them said, no sister but you were wounded in an attack. We were both wounded, said the soldier.
Reflections.
Reflections on Sister Cecile lead us to believe that she did not reflect about Friday but about the book in which she often wrote. We were curious. She wrote this note. This is it. Name life, wife, deed, wound, weather, food, devotion, and expression.
What did he ask for.
Why I don't know.
Why don't you know.
I don't call that making literature at all.
What has he asked for.
I call literature telling a story as it happens.
Facts of life make literature.
I can always feel rightly about that.
We obtained beads for him and our own pictures in it.
Dear pictures of us.
We can tell anything over.
We gave him colored beads and he made them with paper that he bought himself of two different colors into frames that we sent with our pictures to our cousins and our papas in America.
Can we say it.
We cannot.
Now.
Then he told us about his wife and his child.
He does not say anything about them now.
Some immediate provision was necessary.
We said in English these are the facts which we are bringing to your memory.
What is capitol.
He told us of bead buttons and black and white. He answered her back very brightly.
He is a man.
Reflections.
What were the reflections.
Have we undertaken too much.
What is the name of his wife.
They were lost. We did not look forward. We did not think much. How long would he stay. Our reflections really came later.
The first thing we heard from her was that the woman was not staying and had left her new address.
How do you do.
We did not look her up.
Her mother and her mother.
Can you think why Marguerite did not wish Jenny Picard to remain longer.
Because she stole.
Not really.
Yes indeed. Little things.
This will never do.
And then.
I said we must go to see her.
And you said we will see.
One night, no one day she called with her mother.
Who was very good looking.
She was very good looking.
And the little boy.
Can you think of the little boy.
They both said that they were not polite.
But they were.
Reflections can come already.
We believed her reasons were real reasons.
Who is always right.
Not she nor her eleven sisters.
No one knew who was kind to her.
What is kindness.
Kindness is being soft or good and has nothing to do with amiable. Albert is kind and good.
And their wives.
Can you tell the difference between wives and children.
Queen Victoria and Queen Victoria.
They made you jump.
And I said the mother you said the mother. I did not remember the mother was in Paris but you did.
NEXT.LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARCEL DUCHAMP
A family likeness pleases when there is a cessation of resemblances. This is to say that points of remarkable resemblance are those which make Henry leading. Henry leading actually smothers Emil. Emil is pointed. He does not overdo examples. He even hesitates.
But am I sensible. Am I not rather efficient in sympathy or common feeling.
I was looking to see if I could make Marcel out of it but I can't.
Not a doctor to me not a debtor to me not a d to me but a c to me a credit to me. To interlace a story with glass and with rope with color and roam.
How many people roam.
Dark people roam.
Can dark people come from the north. Are they dark then. Do they begin to be dark when they have come from there.
Any question leads away from me. Grave a boy grave.
What I do recollect is this. I collect black and white. From the standpoint of white all color is color. From the standpoint of black. Black is white. White is black. Black is black. White is black. White and black is black and white. What I recollect when I am there is that words are not birds. How easily I feel thin. Birds do not. So I replace birds with tin-foil. Silver is thin.
Life and letters of Marcel Duchamp.
Quickly return the unabridged restraint and mention letters.
My dear Fourth.
Confess to me in a quick saying. The vote is taken.
The lucky strike works well and difficultly. It rounds, it sounds round. I cannot conceal attrition. Let me think. I repeat the fullness of bread. In a way not bread. Delight me. I delight a lamb in birth.
LAND OF NATIONS.[Sub-title And Ask Asia]
After these introductions I wish to say something I wish to say that I am entirely agreed that the best way to meet together is to deny that you wish to spend money. We don't want to spend the money.
They went to spend their money. We all spend our money in this way I spend my money and what do I have. I have a car. That is to say I have spent my money. I do spend my money but not in this way. I do not spend my money in this way. I spend my money. Did you say you had the money. Indeed indeed I believe you there. This is a country. A fine country. This is a fine country. Let us begin with this one which is this country entirely and in this order.
Then we have the country. Let us imagine the country. A country with a wait and wait by me and wait by me and always always always always wait and always wait and always wait and always always wait and wait by me. This is the country I have mentioned. It means to be with us. Then there is a very late country and we wish to embark we wish to embark it altogether. In the midst of money we are whistling.
Continuation.
Jessie
I am angry. Have you been.
I am angry with a din.
I am angry so you see.
Egypt and for Syrie.
I am angry as you hear.
I am angry for the bier.
I am angry for the waist.
I am angry in the taste.
I am angry to the touch.
You can make me see that much.
I am angry and I sigh.
England will be going by.
Going to buy not going to buy.
I am angry and I sigh.
And then in the midst of smoke there was Fiume. I can never make a poem about Italy. About Italy you do, you address, bless and say adieu. Adieu Italy beautiful Italy adieu.
A great many countries have a name.
Let me think of the house and the best.
A house a boat a victory and an alert. In the way of rhyming. I can think of so much. Dirt, flirt and spurt. Do you see any difference. I do. Discourage England, and say you mean well.
Here is a poem.
Amber.
Ambler Curran.
Amber is found on the shores of the Baltic.
Like wild asparagus you must have an eye for it.
All animals howl.
All animals or a barnyard fowl.
All animals are stars
All animals and bars.
Please pay a monkey a dear or a sweet.
Please pay a lion a pheasant or a street.
Please recognize a mother a head or an owl.
Please recognize a feather a heather or a soul. Please recognize the weather. What do you live for.
Climate and the affections. Jews quote that.
ACCENTS IN ALSACE.A REASONABLE TRAGEDY.
Act I. The Schemils.
Brother brother go away and stay.
Sister mother believe me I say.
They will never get me as I run away.
He runs away and stays away and strange to say he passes the lines and goes all the way and they do not find him but hear that he is there in the foreign legion in distant Algier.
And what happens to the family.
The family manages to get along and then some one of his comrades in writing a letter which is gotten hold of by the Boche find he is a soldier whom they cannot touch, so what do they do they decide to embrew his mother and sister and father too. And how did they escape by payingsombodymoney.
That is what you did with the Boche. You always paid some money to some one it might be a colonel or it might be a sergeant but anyway you did it and it wasneccesaryso then what happened.
The Schemmels.
Sing so la douse so la dim.
Un deux trois
Can you tell me wha
Is it indeed.
What you call a Petide.
And then what do I say to thee
Let me kiss thee willingly.
Not a mountain not a goat not a door.
Not a whisper not a curl not a gore
In me meeney miney mo.
You are my love and I tell you so.
In the daylight
And the night
Baby winks and holds me tight.
In the morning and the day and the evening andalway.
I hold my baby as I say.
Completely.
And what is an accent of my wife.
And accent and the present life.
Oh sweet oh my oh sweet oh my
I love you love you and I try
I try not to be nasty and hasty and good
I am my little baby's daily food.
Alsatia.
In the exercise of greatness there is charm.
Believe me I mean to do you harm.
And except you have a stomach to alarm.
I mean to scatter so you are to arm.
Let me go.
And the Alsatians say.
What has another prince a birthday.
Now we come back to the Schemmils.
Schimmel Schimmel Gott in Himmel
Gott in Himmel There comes Shimmel.
Schimmel is an Alsatian name.
Act II.
It is a little thing to expect nobody to sell what you give them.
It is a little thing to be a minister.
It is a little thing to manufacture articles.
All this is modest.
The Brother.
Brother brother here is mother.
We are all very well.
Scene.
Listen to thee sweet cheerie
Is the pleasure of me.
In the way of being hungry and tired
That is what a depot makes you
A depot is not for trains
Its for us.
What are baby carriages
Household goods
And not the dears.
But dears.
Another Act.
Clouds do not fatten with teaching.
They do not fatten at all.
We wonder if it is influence
By the way I guess.
She said. I like it better than Eggland.
What do you mean.
We never asked how many children over eleven.
You cannot imagine what I think about the country.
Any civilians killed.
Act II.
See the swimmer. He don't swim.
See the swimmer.
My wife is angry when she sees a swimmer.
Opening II.
We like Hirsing.
III.
We like the mayor of Guebwiller.
IV.
We like the road between Cernay and the railroad.
We go everywhere by automobile.
Act II.
This is a particular old winter.
Everybody goes back.
Back.
I can clean.
I can clean.
I cannot clean without a change in birds.
I am so pleased that they cheat.
Act 54.
In silver stars and red crosses.
In paper money and water.
We know a french wine.
Alsatian wine is dearer.
They are not particularly old.
Old men are old.
There are plenty to hear of Schemmel having appendicitis.
Scene II.
Can you mix with another
Can you be a Christian and a Swiss.
Mr. Zumsteg. Do I hear a saint.
Louisa. They call me Lisela.
Mrs. Zumsteg. Are you going to hear me.
Young Mr. Zumsteg. I was looking at the snow.
All of them. Like flowers. They like flowers.
Scene III.
It is an occasion.
When you see a Hussar.
A Zouave.
A soldier
An antiquary.
Perhaps it is another.
We were surprised with the history of Marguerite's father and step-father and the American Civil War.
Joseph. Three three six, six, fifty, six fifty, fifty, seven.
Reading french.
Reading french.
Reading french singing.
Any one can look at pictures.
They explain pictures.
The little children have old birds.
They wish they were women.
Any one can hate a Prussian.
Alphonse what is your name.
Henri what is your name.
Madeleine what is your name.
Louise what is your name.
Rene what is your name.
Berthe what is your name
Charles what is your name
Marguerite what is your name
Jeanne what is your name.
Act 425.
We see a river and we are glad to say that that is in a way in the way today.
We see all the windows and we see a souvenir and we see the best flower. The flower of the truth.
An Interlude.
Thirty days in April gave a chance to sing at a wedding.
Three days in February gave reality to life.
Fifty days every year do not make substraction.
TheAlsationssing anyway.
Forty days in September.
Forty days in September we know what it is to spring.
Act in America.
Alsatians living in America.
February XIV.
On this day the troops who had been at Mulhouse came again.
They came in the spring.
The spring is late in Alsace.
Water was good and hot anyway.
What are you doing.
Making music and burning the surface of marble.
When the surface of marble is burned it is not much discolored.
No but there is a discussion.
And then the Swiss.
What is amiss.
The Swiss are the origin of Mulhouse.
Alsace or Alsatians.
We have been deeply interested in the words of the song.
The Alsatians do not sing as well as their storks.
Their storks are their statuettes.
The rule is that angels and food and eggs are all sold by the dozen.
We were astonished.
And potatoes
Potatoes are eaten dry.
This reminds me of another thing I said. A woman likes to use money.
And if not.
She feels it really is her birthday.
Is it her birthday.
God bless her it is her birthday.
Please carry me to Dannemarie.
And what does Herbstadt say.
The names of cities are the names of all.
And pronouncing villages is more of a test than unbrella.
This was the first thing we heard in Alsatia.
Canary, roses, violets and curtains and bags and churches and rubber tires and an examination.
All the leaves are green and babyish.
How many children make a family.
The Watch on the Rhine.
Sweeter than water or cream or ice. Sweeter than bells of roses. Sweeter than winter or summer or spring. Sweeter than pretty posies. Sweeter than anything is my queen and loving is her nature.
Loving and good and delighted and best is her little King and Sire whose devotion is entire who has but one desire to express the love which is hers to inspire.
In the photograph the Rhine hardly showed
In what way do chimes remind you of singing. In what way do birds sing. In what way are forests black or white.
We saw them blue.
With for get me nots.
In the midst of our happiness we were very pleased.