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Postscript:<\/strong> Nov. 18\u2014 A staffer points out that “Against Conciliation,” both portrait and poem, reminds him of the “Portrait of I.K.Bonsett: Je suis contre tout et tous”<\/a> (1921), by an unknown artist, which appeared in the Dadaglobe Reconstructed<\/a> exhibition at MoMA. That never occurred to me, but I’ll take it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201c\u2026 even sweetest lies
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