"Victorian surrealism"

[pynchonoid]

--- Steven <mcquaryq at comcast.net> wrote:

> 	Well, Andre Breton, the would-be 'father' of the
> movement was a  
> moron, an egotist,  a boring fake.  
Imo.  That he
> had the say-so over  
> who belonged and who didn't has always struck me as
> a victory of the  
> small over the large. 

I'm just looking for something interesting to read and
think about, not a long-term personal relationship. ;)

These days I'm looking at the writers from the early
19th century, Theophile Gautier, Baudelaire, Gerard de
Nerval. I especially like the story, perhaps
apocryphal, of Nerval who, when asked why he walked a
lobster on a leash in the streets of Paris and kept it
as a pet, said, Because they know the secrets of the
deep and they don't speak, or words to that effect; a
sad suicide, too. 


> I don't go for Surreal like I
> used to either  
> -- used to love Ernst like I said before, but the
> most important and  
> the best artist of the period was Duchamp, who
> combined sex and  
> mechanics way before Pynch or Ballard.  His final
> work is in the  
> Philadelphia Art Museum 

I'll check it out next time I come visit my kid at
college.

>(a whole room devoted to
> him) right across  
> the Del. River from me and when we first moved here
> I wouldn't go  
> there without gazing into that dark chamber for a
> while...
> 
> 	...as spread thighs are to the libertine --
> 
> 

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