De : Porges, Timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Envoy� : jeudi 14 septembre 2000 18:30
Objet : RE: FLUXLIST: response Sol
> Young fluxus was constantly told then that it was nothing new, nothing
> important, and so on. Amazing, what tyrannical old farts the dadaists
turned
> into. So what does this mean for us now?
"An Anecdote
Ionesco suscribed to one of our suspense poems. The one forwarded to him was
Filliou's Branche Autonome of the Galerie L�gitime. In May 1966 the
following telephone conversation took place in Paris between Daniel Spoerri
and Mme Ionesco.
Spoerri: Is Ionesco in?
Mme Ionesco: No he's out.
Sp: My friend Filliou is here with me. You know Ionesco suscribded to one of
his suspense-poems. What do you think of it?
Mme Io: Well, it's a kind of joke ins't it?
Sp: It's humoristic, yes.
Mme Io: The Dadaist did that before
Sp: Didn't the dadaist write Ionesco type plays 40 years ago?
Mme Io: Perhaps. But Ionesco at least is serious.
Reported from memory one year later by Robert."
In Games at the Cedilla, or the Cedilla takes off, By George Brecht and
Robert Filliou, Something Else Press 1967
This is such a wondreful answer from Mme Ionesco that I have nothing to say
more.
