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Marcel Duchamp, Green Box,

    This headlight child could graphically, be a comet, which would have its tail in front, this tail being an appendage of the headlight child appendage which absorbs by crushing (gold dust, graphically) this Jura-Paris road.




   
Lyn Merrington responds to Marc Latamie's reply to Steven Jay Gould's

    One of Roussel's later plays was called L'Etoile au Front--the Star on the Forehead.

    Duchamp's famous haircut in which he had a star cut into the hair on the back of his head may be a joke in which he has reversed the forehead, in French "le front," or in English pronunciation, the "front" of his head, for the back.
    The significance of Duchamp claiming to be a "breather" is also connected to Roussel and the excessive "R." The word "hair" when pronounced with a heavy French accent "air" is a homophony to the French pronunciation of the letter "R"--Roussel's initials, RR. Every time Duchamp evokes an "R" he is evoking not only Roussel, his own haircut, but also the "Air" which he so relished.




Marcel Duchamp, La boîte verte.

    Cet enfant-phare pourra, graphiquement, être une comète, qui aurait sa queue en avant, cette queue étant l’appendice de l’enfant phare, appendice qui absorbe en l’émiettant (poussière d’or graphiquement) cette route Jura-Paris

Marcel Duchamp, tonsure. 1919. Radnitzky Emmanuel, Man Ray (dit)