Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air…

Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things.

Marcel Duchamp

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Marcel Duchamp

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Grist, Thomas. The Duchamp Dictionary. Thames & Hudson, 2014, p. 70.

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