June 25, 2006

Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, trans. Ron Padgett (Da Cappo, 1971).

Duchamp: The Viennese logicians worked out a system wherein everything is, as far as I understood it, a tautology, that is, a repetition of premises. In mathematics, it goes from a very simple theorem to a very complicated one, but it's all in the first theorem. So, metaphysics: tautology; religion: tautology: everything is tautology, except black coffee because the senses are in control! (107)