Start: Tzara: Oh, what nonsense you talk...

Travesties

Henry Carr Tristan Tzara

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Start: Tzara: Oh, what nonsense you talk!
Carr: It may be nonsense, but at least it is clever nonsense.

End: Tzara: It may be nonsense, but at least it is not clever nonsense, Cleverness has been exploded, along with so much else, by the war.

Stoppard, Tom. Travesties. Grove Press, 1975, pp. 20.

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