“There is no solution because there is no problem” (Roché 85).

 ? Duchamp: “There is no solution because there is no problem” (Roché 85).

9). Duchamp abandoned that definitive space, the traditional forms, limits, concerns, and materials. He went totally off the page, out of that space, allowing thought to dictate its own laws, the resultant ‘becoming’ being anything-whatever: “Take these ‘having become’ and from them make a tracing” (33). He’s interested in the appearance mainly to trace the apparition (the fact of appearing, the status as art): “In general, the picture is the apparition of an appearance” (30). The answer is not a solution (not “what makes writing good”), but a sign (what makes writing). Bartholomae’s given is a solution, “write like Pratt,” not a sign. Instead of tracing a becoming, he urges students to retrace a became