“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
- Marcel Duchamp

“The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the 'outlaw,' the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.”
- Michel Foucault

"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."
- Roland Barthes

gamut

- noun
1. the full range or compass of recognized musical notes; by extension, the compass of an instrument or voice.

com·pass

– noun
1. an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north.
2. the enclosing line or limits of any area; perimeter.
3. space within limits; area; extent; range; scope.
4. the total range of tones of a voice or of a musical instrument.
5. due or proper limits; moderate bounds.
6. a passing round; circuit.
7. an instrument for drawing or describing circles, measuring distances, etc., consisting generally of two movable, rigid legs hinged to each other at one end.
– adj.
8. curved; forming a curve or arc.
– verb
9. to go or move round; make the circuit of.
11. to extend or stretch around; hem in; surround; encircle.
12. to attain or achieve; accomplish; obtain.
13. to contrive; plot; scheme.
14. to make curved or circular.
15. to comprehend; to grasp, as with the mind.

"The objective is always to pull out the tablecloth without in any way changing the arrangement of the table."
- Jean Baudrillard

"Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary."
- William S. Burroughs

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- C.G. Jung