The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman  

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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)

The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman (L'Âne mort et la femme guillotinée) is a "frenetique" novel by French author Jules Janin. Balzac spoofed it by writing a 30th chapter, entitled « Le couteau à papier».



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