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“Little Review” will present to you the men who care only
for the pleasure of a continuous evolution—evolution not being
able to interest those merchants and directors of reviews who
see in these works only merchandise for snobs and peers.
FRANCIS PICABIA
TABU
T HE sense given to the word “to be born” is nearly
always an error, since nothing is born, all already
exists. Things are only transformed by contact with
others and manifest themselves under a new form.
TABU was not born, but already existing in the
atmosphere in which the contact of two elements produced the
flash of comprehension and manifestation.
Great ideas succeed and take form at the precise moment when
they are necessary to replace a state of mind unfit to satisfy the
highest degree of perfection of certain men.
All ideas, past and future, exist about us, but for certain ones
to manifest themselves, thousands of years are needed to find the
necessary circumstances and favorable receivers.
The new idea is not born of reason or reflection but rather
from the need of existing and out of the propitious moment when
it can and must exist.
Einstein, properly speaking, is not responsible for his idea
which is so popular just now. His only merit is that life has
chosen him to be the receiver and transmitter of the idea of
Relativity.
He has neither invented nor created this idea; he has, on the
contrary, allowed himself to be dominated and fascinated by that
which, existing long before he did, has chosen him to be its trans
mitter because without doubt Einstein is the best, the most sensi
tive, the most gifted for the task.