C'est un bon coup

C'est un bon coup

L.H.O.O.Q. is a work of art by Marcel Duchamp first conceived in 1919. [ ... ]

The name of the piece, L.H.O.O.Q., is a pun, since the letters when pronounced in French form the sentence, Elle a chaud au cul. "Elle a chaud au cul" literally translates into "She is hot in the ass".[1] In a late interview (Schwarz 203), Duchamp gave a loose translation of "L.H.O.O.Q." as "there is fire down below" (in fact the term avoir chaud au cul is slang used in the sense of "to be horny"). *

I bought the postcard above at the Museum Kunsthaus Zürich for an astronomical price. I forget who the artist was who painted it. I think it's supposed to be just a bunch of squares painted in some sort of generative way, but all I saw was a penis. A big, multicolored, erect penis. A must have.

Walking back to the train station, I stumbled right by, Cabaret Voltaire! The birthplace of anarchistic Dada! Looks like it was turned into some sort of coffee shop, with a themed back room with Dada-inspired flare everywhere. I did the most Dada thing I could think of and had coffee at a Starbucks instead, just across the street.

When I got back to the place I was staying, I took at the old Sharpie and made a few little modifications of my own to my postcard and sent it to someone in New York City. Not sure if they ever received it. I guess that's fitting. The French isn't as clever as Duchamp's - it just basically means, "It's a good Fuck"

Here's an entire few days in Switzerland described in, coups

passe un coup dans la salle de bains

ah, tu as le coup pour mettre la pagaille!

C'est bien un coup à lui.

Murten, Switzerland:

un beau coup d'œil

après coup

Yo La Tengo, Friburg Switzerland

faire d'une pierre deux coups

Il en met un sacré coup.

jeter un coup d'œil à

du même coup

un coup de pied

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avoir un bon coup de crayon