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If we want to dwell on “Ceci n’est pas use pipe,” while the meaning of the phrase was, as discussed here, the difference between an object and the image of the object, it was also a pun in French. Native French speakers recognized that the word “pipe” meant the pipe one smokes, but was also a slang word for the sexual act of fellatio. Lost in translation …
Kind of like L.H.O.O.Q. (see Duchamp’s version of Mona Lisa) lol.
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