NON-CONFORMIST MANIFESTO[i]

For a new literary movement:

the PARADOXISM

Myself... I’m not a poet.

I went from mathematics. Actually I was surprised: why do the paradoxes exist in mathematics?

Does the most exact science, the Queen  of Sciences – how Gauss said – admit both false and true things?

Then, why not in literature?

Then, why aren’t there paradoxes in literature, which seems to be so open, so flexible?

And I tried to find.

All is possible. Therefore this volume too!!

- Read, my friends, our everyday paradoxes! Expressed in naïf, banal sentences:

• ·        Hard contradictions.

• ·        Strong antitheses.

• ·        Figurative expressions literally interpreted.

• ·        Meaning deviation.

• ·        Word games.

• ·        Contradictory comparisons.

• ·        Words placed in several meanings at the same time.

• ·        Absurd repetitions.

• ·        Proverbs’ parody.

Non-verse, non-work, non-literature, … non-yes!

-         - Write, my friends, our everyday paradoxes! The life paradoxes:

                     To love and to hate             

                                                                    in the same time.

        To be loved and to be hated

• Program the computers to write in your place!

• Any free word in poetry, or better:

• Poems without words…

• These last ones will finally be read!

• If the precursors have said an idea, you say the opposite!!

• Write my friends.

PRONOUNCE AN ANATHEMA AGAINST THIS SUBJECT!

                                                      Florentin  SMARANDACHE