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Subject: Re: A way for surrealists to take over the world
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:54:11 -0500
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Parry wrote:
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> Johamar wrote:
> >
> > On 11.2.2004 5:02, in article
> > YHiWb.19468$F23.13359@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net, "Allsmoky"
> > <allsmoky@yourhouse.not> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > In the past, I've had a lot of fun entering German poetry into my
> > > wordprocesser and then altering it by means of spell-check. Then I would
> > > edit just to smooth it out.
> > > Would such an activity be considered surrealist? Since it's not really the
> > > automatism, it's not really springing from the unconscious, it's probably
> > > more of an abstract expressionist "wank", I suppose? It is a collaboration
> > > between a dead German poet and a spell-checker -- and a proofreader. If I
> > > recall it, one of them started with
> >
> > > I'm frothy fancying fluid surge, Daffodil breathes, I cannot feel my toes...
> > >
> > Someone would call this computer-poetry, others probably DADA, but my
> > interpretation is that this kind of "poetry" is that it is just plain silly.
> > This activity is surely not surrealism. But you are having fun, so why not
> > call this what it is, a game.
>
> surrealist research has taken the form of games.
>
> About automatism, there is an automatism of seeing or recognition. A
> chain of words can have potency no matter how randomly it was derived.
> Such are the effects of chance.
Sure, even such a small action as taking a random walk through a city
can have a greater meaning when seen through the eyes of a surrealist...
in getting "lost" one might find something... something... beneath...
beyond... marvelous...
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