"An Andalusian Dog"--Andalusia is a region in Spain, and from what I
understand, this is an ethnic slur.
>The model for surrealist creations was the dream. Maybe we can go back
>there to seek for a surrealist narrative. In a dream, things don't have a
>logical link, so it seems :).
But is it a lack of logic, or merely an apparent lack of logic? Freud
obviously seemed to find meaning therein. :)
>In my dream, I have
>often a mandate, a quest, a fear (therfore a story). But that story has
>it's own logic.
This urgency seems crucial to the dream experience, but difficult to
recreate in a virtual experience.
>In the Carnaval structure, I'm the same in and out. Imagine it
>with the following twist: I change, my actions have consequences (as
>surrealist may they be). Therefor, my actions are linked and there is a
>quest. A quest to see/live the results of my actions. That would give
>suffisant links, basis of story telling with out killing the surrealistic
>universe.
Would you say that inhabiting the landscape of dreams while awake is
surralism? I'm not sure of the answer, but prima facia, it seems at
least as plausible as the juxtaposition of objects with semantic distance"
explanation, and gives us a starting point for narrative structure as well.
>Don't know if all of this makes sense, I just woke up.
Any interesting dreams? :)
--Andy
andyn@texas.net