"When the word 'Dada' came to me [in German: 'mir begegnete'], I was called upon twice by Dionysios [Areopagita]. D.A. – D.A. (H...k [= Huelsenbeck] wrote about this mystical birth [of the new word, Dada], as did I in earlier notes)"

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Quote of Hugo Ball, in his entry for 18 June 1921, in Die Flucht aus der Zeit /Flight out of Time, 18 June 1921, p. 296; as quoted by Debbie Lewer in 'Papers of Surrealism', Issue 6 - Autumn 2007, p. 9