Marcel Duchamp, Hans Hoffmann Photograph, 1912

Carl Theodor von Piloty

Instead of eggs, Realometer writes about spheres. He thinks that
Duchamp and Picabia have read the following quote: La Connaissance humaine est pareille à une sphère qui grossirait sans cesse; a mesure qu’ augmente son volume, grandit le nombre de ses points de contact avec l’inconnu. (Pascal)*

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M. cannot speak, therefore he cannot speak of the soul. The problem is that M. is conceivable as the soul of everything, also of something which speaks. So something of M. can speak, but M. as whole can’ t. This is not a contradiction because: Probably for M. speaking is not a faculty of relevance.

* Portius wanted to speak about meteorology. But his audience in Pisa asked him to speak about the soul: „Sprich uns von der Seele!”. (ECW II, p. 83 follows: Léopold Mabilleau: Étude historique sur la philosophie de la renaissance en Italie (Cesare Cremonini). Paris 18851, S. 275, Anm. 1[hier: „Parlez-nous de l’âme!”.

In order to speak so Realometer reads another quote: „The soul is an itself moving number.”**

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Realometer translates: Writing poetry means to let the prime word sound behind  words

into:

D: To make art means to appear under every circumstance as an artist.
R: To be realometer means to find a text beyond everything.
M: M means to perceive in everything one force.
J: Subversion means to turn the backside into the frontside and to subvert the own act of subversion.

M: R. Mutt (er)

Dichten heisst hinter Worten das Urwort erklingen zu lassen. (Gerhart Hauptmann)

D: Kunst machen heisst unter allen Umständen als Künstler hervortreten zu wollen und zu können.
R: Realometer sein heisst hinter allem einen Text zu finden.
M: M heisst in allem eine Kraft wahrzunehmen.
J: Subvertieren heisst hinten nach vorne zu kehren und die eigene Subversion subvertieren zu wollen.

Realometer: A reading head

Duchamp: Egoprocessor

Jabès: Difference driver

M: Unifyer (a machine?)

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The marks are: text-as-text; text-as-world; world-as-world.

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