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158 Chapter Nineteen:

A CHILD'S VIEW OF THE WORLD.

For Khlebnikov, life and art were inseparable. This chapter touches on this theme in order to show some of the ways in which the peculiarities of Khlebnikov's art also characterized him in his personal life. In particular, it is argued that not only did his poetic language often show "infantilist" features, but his methods of work and thought resembled the ways and the world-view of a child.