Notes on zaum

Transrational language: a temporary ecstasy, more private than public. Can be returned to sporadically for intense sensation, like ice cream. Best used “in the mix” for contrast, i.e. as dessert (although not necessarily in a linear sense).

Glossolalia: the showy display of murky privacy.

Cherish the zaumishness of garbage-y cyber-detritus. Don’t knock it — use it, milk it.

Fear of the transrational in poetry is akin to a fear of sex (fear of milkiness?).

Animal language is probably not transrational, although it appears to be, to us.

We can keep the transrational interesting not just by contrast — also by degrees and permutations.

Is the transrational a mutation of the rational? Trun hoova blee smur.