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...people (“Tristan, Tzara”) burst with the raw energy he demands. Dada artists themselves provide most of the fun. Tzara once unraveled a roll of toilet paper marked “Merde” to end a performance and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven wore a birdcage as a hat to parties. Codrescu amplifies their liveliness with his tight, brisk sentences: “In Sparta, bored out of her mind, the baroness sneaked off to Cincinnati by train to model nude at an art school.” What Codrescu doesn’t explicitly...
Unlike them, Florine Stettheimer was not in the least bohemian. The Arensbergs had bizarre figures of the Greenwich Village avant-garde like Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, the first New York punkette, who made public appearances with her hair shaved off and her scalp dyed purple. Such creatures would never have been tolerated at Stettheimer's evenings in town, where decorum prevailed, or her picnics in the country, which she painted as fetes champetres full of wispy, epicene figures...
Wagner's Kurwenal, a great, shaggy man, was Tristan's tutor and companion. Mathilde, Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven's Kurwenal was a short, smooth-haired dachshund, probably the most remarkable dog of the Western world. Last week's American Kennel Gazette gave the recently deceased dog Kurwenal a striking obituary...
...Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven's good friend, Miss Emelie Augusta Louise Lind-af-Hageby, founder of the British Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, wrote she had moved into a new office. The Baroness asked Kurwenal what he said to that. He yelped: "No flowers. My warmest greetings...
Mathilde von Freytag-Loringhoven, who taught Kurwenal, is a motherly woman who looks something like Napoleon, with wisps of hair on her broad forehead, squinting eyes, a huge nose. She has trained many a dog, written many an article on the soul life of animals. Boldly she called scholars to "expose" her work, boasting that Kurwenal would perform when she was out of sight and earshot. Müller, Wulf, Plate and others went to her Weimar home to scoff, stayed to be yapped...