[it was the cabaret voltaire]4d dada is like we are. it's convenient to be inthe flow. otherwise we'de get stuck under tractors and killed all the time. there's enuf of them. this ain'ta compra-hansev laest.

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Tristan Tzara poet. ne'erdowell. [sad in the land] "papa dada" he said

Hugo Ball fathered the seminal cabaret voltaire and became a catholic. dead in switzerland.

Marcel Janko derelect. built all those masks. dead by 1984.

Marcel Duchamp queen. fountain & readymades, nude descending. dead in "france".

Hans Arp !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????

Hannah Höch photomontagist. drug addict. antifeminist.

Arthur Cravan boxer. pugilist. vanished in the pacific.

Emmy Hennings performer. holy woman. wife. died later, put in the same place.

Max Ernst traitor. pornographer. murdered himself august 1, 1914.

Baroness Else Von Freytag-Loringhoven sculptor. poet. nonphilanthropic benefactor. gassed herself: 14 dec 1927.

Man Ray "american" (pff). photographer. died of lungs in november.

Kurt Schwi -tters

dadaist. abandoned it. merz man. died temporarily blind in england.

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Richard Huelsenbeck hypocrite. psychoanalist. recanted at 1974 death.

Raoul Hausmann sound poet. collager-extraordinaire. hanged, 1971.