"Dale Houstman" <dmh7@citilink.com> wrote in message
news:40436E9A.6080503@citilink.com...
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> > I'm gambling that Elag meant in spite of instead of "in light of"
> > up above.
>
> Possibly. But one point still remains: nobody was saying they wouldn't
> see Cocteau's films because of his "lifestyle" only that it was
> impossible to consider him a surrealist because of same. After all,
> surrealism is more than the "product" and Cocteau's celebrity-baiting
> and war activities preclude his consideration, even if he had wanted to
> hang with such a bunch of poor people. The films can be viewed on their
> own merits, but his surrealist "credentials" cannot.
And I suppose that was the point: to view the films on their own merit.
There are things "surrealist" that can be found anywhere, high and low. That
he wasn't in the good graces of Surrealists - for good reasons - is
established and understood.
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