It was yesterday, the 8th, which is also when the Catholic Church celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which may have been a running, or cycling, joke with Jarry back in the day. At any rate, there are five Jarry haikus from Haiku Revelation. Jarry’s own words, reassembled, and now to be filtered through the magic of Bing Translate. First the five haikus:
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Dissonant music 
is a crocodile dawn that 
breaks like a pistol 

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God is a ruin . . . 
A blind, inexhaustible, 
obtuse idiot 

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Virtue is ugly . . . 
Inert, impersonal, a 
stuffed bear of passion 

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An audience should 
be mummified—silence is 
an ovation’s fire 

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Tradition is an 
unwavering excuse to 
demolish the world 

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They were run via an UBUROI conceit, which yielded, in a semi-automatic means of selection (fast scroll and eye alighting), Urdu, Bangla, Uyghur, Rundi, Occitan, Irish, and the return to English. This yielded an UBUesque monologue, presented here just as Bing birthed it, right down to the punctuation.

“In the case of the tools, an image appears, this work continues to foster the beautiful. God is love, and He works in the struggles of people… We begin, as it is shown, the paths of life are not here for humanity. If people do not do it, they will lose the chance in some moments. Launching a project in a world that is hiding what you do. In reality, we work again, because we have the knowledge for revival, we speak about the context of the era, and on the other hand, we must change.”

Blustering with pompous positivity like a Jarry routine? Jarry talking about his work? UBU talking about his work? Who can be sure? We do know that this work continues to foster the beautiful, because we have the knowledge for revival. As for the images that appear here, we’ve chosen the Spanish and Portuguese UBU covers just to avoid a connection to Return On Investment.