You're Not their Favorite Teacher
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From program annotations by Joachim Frank:
"Ed Atkeson displays drawings on a giant flipboard, which narrow down on Alfred Jarry's mysterious existence.
To his call "yougotto" the audience responds with "ayooh," (Jo's quaint spelling is "ajoo,") an uttering in a certain part of Germany meaning affirmative, uncritical inclination towards a matter brought up. Ed has just been in Germany, which explains the importation of this unimportable word into the Halfmoon Cafe."
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YouGOTto
YouGOTto
YouGOTto
YouGOTto

When Wilson P. said it it seemed so serious.
(I said a naa na na na na, handclapping etc. it is a game group)


There has been some question about caprice, whimsy,

let me assure you the program will be

(audience receives instructions for YouGOTto -- ayooh chant)
(12 year old Hosea Frank ably demonstrates the subtle inflection)

and important

theological, pataphysical,

theatrical, and polite ayooh

attractive

but a bit obscure we will consider the famous
Jarry eclipse of over 50 years, the exasperation of St. Peter, and a modern pataphysician of note.
Something for everyone.

YouGOTto
YouGOTto
YouGOTto

ayooh

In the last days your old will see visions, your young will dream dreams, beautiful women will ride motorscooters through the streets of Florence with their knees tight together.

In those days Joe Tex will foretell the coming of Diana Ross.

And there will appear a star

here he is sleeping alone in his tiny room in Paris.

The interior is strewn with bicycle innertubes and patch kits,
revolvers, ammunition, works of Moliere,
parts of a broken fencing sword,
a largish toilet brush.

YouGOTto
YouGOTto
YouGOTto

ayooh

selah

 

Here is a closeup

of the corona of the Jarry eclipse,
new studies of which have spurred pataphysical research such as
the nature of the surface tension of large expanses
of asphalt paving designated by

the symbol,

the remarkably parallel spirit of proud bewilderment found in

the exasperation of St Peter, and certain

expressions of contemporary pataphysicians, for example

YouGOTto
ayooh
YouGOTto
ayooh
YouGOTto
ayooh

Research continues on the portion of bicycle wheel in question.

Here is one solution to the problem currently being put forth --

on display at the Pompidou Centre


YouGOTto

ayooh

YouGOTto

ayooh

YouGOTto

ayooooh

 

 

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