Another aspect of quirkiness is obvious from the final engraved plate, 'Simulacre des instants de la génération chez les éléphants'. Artists often have a morbid wish to humanize the strange and fantastical. Hence we see Hans & Marguerite promoting their missionary work from Ceylon, via the Hague, to Paris in far too obvious a manner.
“If you set out to write a poem about two [elephants] f***ing, and you write a poem about two [elephants] f***ing, well, then you wrote a poem about two [elephants] f***ing.”
Another aspect of quirkiness is obvious from the final engraved plate, 'Simulacre des instants de la génération chez les éléphants'. Artists often have a morbid wish to humanize the strange and fantastical. Hence we see Hans & Marguerite promoting their missionary work from Ceylon, via the Hague, to Paris in far too obvious a manner.
“If you set out to write a poem about two [elephants] f***ing, and you write a poem about two [elephants] f***ing, well, then you wrote a poem about two [elephants] f***ing.”