Word: lettrism
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Sartre and his followers were not seen so often now at the Flore. Disappointed admirers had stopped hanging around, and the place was full of nobodies. That saddened Pascal; and he was alarmed to see Existentialism menaced by two upstart cults: Lettrism and Sensorialism...
...Lettrism, founded by Isidore Isou, an eccentric Rumanian, is a theory of poetry as "rhythmic architecture." The rapidly growing hordes of Lettrists scorn practically all non-Lettrist poets, and prefer meaningless combinations of letters to dictionary words. Founder Isou was planning last week to hire the Salle Wagram, one of Paris' biggest auditoriums, to denounce his opponents publicly. A typical Lettrist poem looks like a passage from Finnegans Wake translated into Esperanto...
Pascal curled his lip. "Lettrism," he sneered. "Sensorialism. These are what menace us today. We must combat them if we wish things to remain as they were in the good old days...
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