“If a straight horizontal thread one meter long falls from a …”

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“If a straight horizontal thread one meter long falls from a height of one meter on to a horizontal plane twisting as it pleases [it] creates a new image of the unit of length.”

— Marcel Duchamp

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Title: Wikiquote: Marcel Duchamp
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Duchamp, Marcel. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Marcel Duchamp. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp

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