The World According To Pere Ubu
Robot A. Hull, Creem, November 1979
Look, look at the machine revolving,
Look, look at the brain flying,
Look, look at the Rentiers trembling!
Hurrah, arse-horns, long live Pere Ubu!
– Alfred Jarry, ‘The Song of the Disembraining’
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