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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Big Toe ("Le gros orteil") is an essay by French philosopher Georges Bataille first published in Documents (1929, issue 6) with photos by Jacques-André Boiffard.

One of Boiffard's toes is depicted on the cover of Rosalind E. Krauss's The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths.

Roland Barthes's 1972 text on Georges Bataille, "Les sorties du texte," references it extensively.

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