"German-French sculptor, painter and poet. Jean Arp (also called Hans Arp) was born in Alsace and studied at the Strasbourg School of Arts and Crafts, ..
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The feet of morning the feet of noon and the feet of evening walk ceaselessly round pickled buttocks on the other hand the feet of midnight remain motionless in their echo-woven baskets
consequently the lion is a diamond
on the sofas made of bread are seated the dressed and the undressed the undressed hold leaden swallows between their toes the dressed hold leaden nests between their fingers at all hours the undressed get dressed again and the dressed get undressed and exchange the leaden swallows for the leaden nests
consequently the tail is an umbrella
a mouth opens within another mouth and within this mouth another mouth and within this mouth another mouth and so on without end it is a sad perspective which adds an I-don't-know-what to another I-don't-know-what
consequently the grasshopper is a column
the pianos with heads and tails place pianos with heads and tails on their heads and their tails
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The Domestic Stones (fragment) by Jean Hans Arp