Ask people less amused by dada and they'll tell you it's pretentious silliness. I'm not saying that I totally agree with them but it's a very popular opinion. Fortunately, I should say, college gave me the chance to refine my intellectual curiosity from such raw modernist libertinism but I wouldn't say I've sold out on the sentiment. In fact, after my Heideggerian spell, I've been seduced once again by the Kierkegaard/Camusian absurdism (though that is very much different from the Theatre of the Absurd and dada).
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