Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

Simply because they've got performed what in all simplicity they believed ]97 198 Manifestoes of Surrealism they'd to do, simply because once more they've got now not taken the orders 01 the excellent (usually simply because they didn't know the way to take them), they've got the following begun down a direction that they are going to come to suppose, with the best soreness, was once no longer theirs, and are available to believe that whether or not they might re­ fuse to head farther during this path or now not relied on support from the skin, which was once tremendous tricky. lifestyles, bad lifestyles, is going on ravishingly. every one is going at it with the belief of his personal freedom that he has controlled to border for bimself, and God is familiar with that in general this concept is a timid one. however it isn't the guy of at the present time who could consent to go looking within the stars for the pinnacle of the pin, the well-known pin he cannot get out of the sport in any case. * He has patiently accredited his lot, terrible guy, has even been, I do think, forever sufferer. He makes it an obligation to disre­ gard the marvelous intercessions in his want that may be imminent. His mind's eye is a theater in ruins, a baleful perch for parrots and crows. This guy will now not do something other than to delight himself; at each mo­ ment he boasts of bringing the resource of his authority into the sunshine of day. An absurd pretentiousness may be the reason for his many disappointments. He still will­ ingly deprives himself of assistance from what he doesn't recognize, I suggest what he can't comprehend, and makes use of any type of argument to justify himself for thus doing. He scarcely be­ lieves within the invention of the Philosophers' Stone by way of Nic­ olas F1amel, for the straightforward cause that the good alchemist turns out to not have gotten wealthy sufficient from it. open air of the non secular scruples he may need had approximately taking the sort of vulgar virtue, in spite of the fact that, one may ask yourself how the acquiring of quite a lot of bits of gold can have inter­ ested him, whilst it were specifically an issue of creating up a religious fortune. This desire for industrialization, that's uppermost in people's objection to F1amel, is to be came upon virtually all over the place: it really is one of many relevant components within the defeat of the spirit. it truly is what has given delivery to this .. The expression "drer I'epingle du jeu," actually "to get the pin out of the game," figuratively potential "to get out of whatever with· out a loss. "-Tr. A Letter to Seers 199 frantic mania for keep watch over, which it will likely be Surrealism's simply glory to have denounced. clearly they'd all prefer to were at the back of Flamel while he made this decisive scan, which without doubt might were decisive just for him. an identical is going for mediums, whom humans im­ mediately desired to undergo the remark of medical professionals, "scholars," and different illiterates. And for the main half, mediums have allow themselves be stuck red-handed within the act of committing vulgar hoaxes, which to me is an evidence in their probity and their style. in fact as soon as legitimate technology have been reassured, with one damning record coming to augment many different studies, the negative facts once more pressured attractiveness.