Deductions Concerning Marcel Benabou, Oulipian Author (Notes)

1. Marcel Bénabou was an Oulipian before joining the OULIPO: his experiencing LSD (Littérature Semo-Définitionelle) with Georges Perec, for example, demonstrates this. This is not the sole proof, but let’s not jump ahead of ourselves.

2. Thus Marcel Bénabou was “oulipian” before being an oulipian—a plagiarist of himself by anticipation. There is nothing surprising in this fact. It’s fair to say that every oulipian has been in some sort an oulipian before becoming a member of the OULIPO. This is equally true, of course, of the founders, François Le Lionnais (FLL) and Raymond Queneau (RQ).

3. Once he joined the OULIPO, Marcel Bénabou (henceforth designated in these notes as MB) became consciously and actively an oulipian.