Rainbow Manifesto: April 15th, 1966

    Cover your head with a yellow hat because Tristan Tzara didn’t cover his head with one in 1916, 1918, 1919 and 1920.     Wear a violet coat because Jean-Paul Sartre, who said it hasn’t been sufficiently noted that the constructions, paintings and poem-objects of Surrealism were the manual realization of sterilities by which the sceptics of the Third Century B.C. justified their perpetual “epoche.” After which, Carneades and Philo, sure of not compromising themselves by an imprudent adherence, lived like everybody else. In the same way, the Surrealists, once the world is destroyed and miraculously preserved by its destruction, can shamelessly give full play to their immense love of the world never wore one.     Wear red gloves because fifteen years ago I was blamed by a Japanese Communist for not painting a red flag.     Wear orange pants because Circumference = 2 Π r     Wear green socks because the area of the circle = Π r²     Put on blue shoes         but Π = 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884 197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117 067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117 450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933 446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326 648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829 254091715364369036001133053054882046652138414695194151160943 305727036575959195309218611738193261179310511854807446237996 274956735188575272489122793818301194912983367336244065664308 602139494639522473719070217986094370277053921717629317675238 467481846766940513200656812714526356082778577134275778960917 363717872146844090122495343014654958537105079227968925892354 201995611212902196086355441911971602977461130996051870721134 9999998372978049951059731732816096318475024459455 . . .