"elag" <elag@cloud8.net> wrote in message
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> Allsmoky wrote:
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> > "Telicalbook" <telicalbook@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
> > news:20040203235535.11576.00001255@mb-m12.aol.com...
> > > Hi...
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> > > Got any plans?
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> > > Robert Pearson
> > > http://www.rspearson.com/
> > > ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net
> > > R.S. Pearson Music Page http://www.rspearson.com/rsmusic.html
> > >
> > If it proceeds according to a plan, is it still surrealism? History
shows
> > regimes are replaced by other repressive regimes who continue the same
> > practices shrouded in new jargon.
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> I must admit that I have the same concern vis a vis ANY revolution.
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> > It would be a shame if, just as it took
> > over the world, surrealism became minimalism or something like that.
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> That doesn't sound likely, but corruption is always a possibility.
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> > That would just be a crying shame.
> > Perhaps all that is required is not standing in the way and actively
helping
> > as the world turns more surreal every day.
> > oar, 2 putetre an other whey,
> > Every day more surreal as the world turns helping and actively in the
way is
> > not standing that is perhaps all.
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> Well, how do you define "surreal"?
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> > I'm infatuated with this group. :)) I hope you all don't mind my
barging
> > in. Anyone have any histroy lessons for me (re this ng?)
> > I will now proceed to chemically restrain myself.
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> In recent history an embarrassment of trolls and increasing flame wars
> have taken their toll. The regulars are mostly gone, and there is
> little left other than drive by posters & assorted nuts. This could, of
> course, change at any time... a group is but the sum of its parts.
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> In the past there have been periods of interesting (to me) discussion of
> surrealist obsessions such as Desire and the Imagination, collaborative
> poems, and even image manipulation (before most servers began refusing
> binaries for this group).
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> Will there be an alt.surrealism renaissance?
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> replace "8" with "9" to reply
Consider me a drive-by -- possibly.
My understanding of surrealism construes it as an experimental and free
expression which welcomes collaboration. It recognizes that popular
perceptions of reality support and are supported by our way of life and our
power structures. And wants to subvert that reality.
Would you want your sugar-glass-screened monitor to be a flat screen or a
good old fashioned box? I'm thinking box. :)
Reading FAQ now.
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