D.: I’ve never read Descartes to speak of. … I am not a Cartesian by pleasure. I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you. *

*Eric Cameron: „Given”. In: De Duve, Thierry (ed.): The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Nova Scoatia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, p. 17.

D.: A game of Chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn’t geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves; it’ s a drawing, it’ s a mechanical reality.*

* Eric Cameron: „Given”. In: De Duve, Thierry (ed.): The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Nova Scoatia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, p. 16.

D.: Cabanne asked me once:„What do you believe in?” and I answered: Nothing of course! The word ‚belief’ is another error. It’s like the word ‚judgement’,they ‘re both horrible ideas, on which the world is based. I hope it won’ t be like that on the moon!*

* Eric Cameron: „Given”. In: De Duve, Thierry (ed.): The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Nova Scoatia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, p. 6.

D.: Cabanne ask me also: „Nevertheless you believe in yourself?” and I answered: No.*

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Realometer: A text is vessel.

Jab: A book is a vessel which carriers vessels. Rhyming is a sort of trimming a vessel.

Jab: Words are like waves. Listening to words, speaking them out loudly, reading or writing them we adapt to unstable conditions.

Realometer: This is no longer stable. Climate shift, volcanic ashes, financial conditions in the gene agroculturual industry … all this highly destabilizes the frame work of farming.

Jab.: Yes, the very foundations of dwelling are shaken. Therefore dwelling and living are forms of navigation in uncharted regions.