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“Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.”

Velimir Khlebnikov - King of Time

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Velimir Khlebnikov

Zangezi : futurist poem play  - selections translated by Richard Balthazar

GOD MAKER

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Come, young masters!  Young lords, come! Here died the river of my will, o wind-sweet lords, The ruinous torture river And swayness of gods.  But I, god-maker, am alone.

poster :  Zangezi by Petr Miturich (1922)           

In his play ''Zangezi: A Supersaga in 20 Planes,'' he extended that definition to include bird sounds, noises and an invented language called ''beyonsense'' (''zaum'' in Russian), all of them united as methods of communication.[read more]

« BOBÈOBI… » Bobèobi se chantaient sur les lèvres Véèomi se chantaient les regards Pièèo se chantaient les sourcils Liéèèï se chantait la figure Gzi-gzi-gzèo se chantait la chaîne. C'est ainsi que sur la toile de certaines correspondances Hors de l'étendue vivait le visage.

                        (1908-1909)

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If you think that this picture is an example of bad wordplay between Russian and French - you're probably right. 1600x900 quote source

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Zangezi (excerpt)

I have come like a butterfly 

Into the hall of human life, 

And must spatter my dusty coat 

As signature across its bleak windows, 

As a prisoner scratches his name 

On fate’s unyielding windowpane. 

Human life is papered thick 

With grayness and boredom! 

The transparent NO of its windows! 

Already I have worn away 

My wing’s blue windstorm. The bright motes 

Of my first freshness are gone, my wings waver,

Colorless and stiff. I droop despairing 

At the windows of the human world. 

Numbers, eternal numbers, sound in the beyond; 

I hear their distant conversation. Number 

Calls to number; number calls me home.

- Velimir Khlebnikov