Dada Manifesto

Dada Manifesto

"It will serve to show how articulated language comes into being. I let the vowels fool around. I let the vowels quite simply occur, as a cat meows . . . Words emerge, shoulders of words, legs, arms, hands of words. Au, oi, uh. One shouldn't let too many words out. A line of poetry is a chance to get rid of all the filth that clings to this accursed language, as if put there by stockbrokers' hands, hands worn smooth by coins. I want the word where it ends and begins. Dada is the heart of words."

          Dada itself has many meanings in different languages and dialects. It could mean good in a point and then bad in another language. Even though the paragraph and the whole passage on Dada movement by Hugo Ball couldn't emphasize really well what Dada is, in my view I believe the passage is showing a point that since Dada doesn't have a real and one unique meaning among languages Nihilist feels that and how is how the world is. Thus Nihilist feels there's nothing on earth that is valuable and everything is worthless.