"I doubted that, for instance, house, cottage, and tower come together under the concept of building. Perhaps, the shoulder must be linked to the number four. I did it practically, in my poems, as a kind of proof."

-- Alexander Vvedensky

(trans. Eugene Ostashevsky in Oberiu: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism, ed. E. Ostashevsky [Evanston, Ill: Northwestern UP, 2006] xxii)