Great Regulars: This resonates with the enterprise and dilemma

of the l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e poets. Saussure's perception that language is not substance but form, and that neither sounds nor ideas existed before the system was in place, remains difficult to rebut. But form has a way of creating substance. Put two words together, or even two consonants and a vowel, and you soon get a population explosion of infant meanings, their little heads infested with second-hand, journalistic lice.

[by Hugo Ball]

Gadji beri bimba

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Gadji beri bimba by Hugo Ball

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