« Even as he was making this declaration, however, Duchamp was distancing himself from the Paris Dada scene that prompted the Evening Journal article. When his sister Suzanne, now married to his friend, the artist Jean Crotti, suggested Duchamp send something for the Dada Salon Tzara was organizing at the Galerie Montaigne, Duchamp responded that « exposer » sounded too much like « épouser », and when Tzara himself repeated the request, Duchamp sent a telegram that contained the three words « PODE BAL - DUCHAMP » with its pun on « peau de balle » or « balls to you ». Thus, when the exhibition was mounted, the spaces reserved for Duchamp's works were occupied by empty frames ».