Chance, concept of, Redux

David Gentle gentle_family at btinternet.com
Mon Jul 16 02:59:19 CDT 2007


<<We know from Slow Learner that TRP was taken with surrealism early. Fed,
matched his comic style, at the least.......

>From an obit of a jazz singer and writer (I had no idea of his singing, but
I read a book of his on music long ago)...and anarchist, I encounter this
'Surrealist Slogan"; The certainty of chance"......

Singer-writer-artist's name was George Melly. wonderful obit was in The
Economist, which I will send if y'all can't get it and are interested.

to me, anyway, The Certainty of Chance IS a chapter title in the BIG
COMPLETE book on TRP and all his work.....agree?//    co-think?....riff on?

MK>>

Melly was pretty famous here in the UK, with regular TV appearances,
latterly as a talking head. He once admited that he'd masturbated over a
fish.

David Gentle




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