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«dé-coll/age», Bulletin aktueller ideen, No. 6, Edited by Wolf Vostell Typos Verlag, Köln, 1967 [MoMA, New York, NY. Fondazione Bonotta, Colceresa (VI). © Wolf Vostell / ARS, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn]

  There is a new fiber, a something of cedar in   ₁ a ‘something’ of red dust than the ‘nothing’ of holiness, I’d rather have   ₂ and still with a something of mellowness.   There is a combination of soft salmon pink, “picked out,” to use the common phrase.   ₃ The walls are mostly bare,   with a few items that change regularly —   ₄ neither Souls nor Bodies; they are no more than the faithful Shadows of themselves, a Something of too refined and subtle a Nature to be touched —   ₅   The wall is a something of a sketchbook for me,   ₄ a something of linen or woollen to cover the straw on which they lie,   ₆ a something of nearly transparent linen and lace that started somewhere round   ₇   in the sea of words submerged. A something of small account at any time; of no account at all when it comes to   ₈   ‘A Something else thereby’; ‘A something of Four’   ₉ how language is such a dust   ₁₀

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Bruce Nauman