Ok, it looks like the Surrealist discussion is dead. Ditto for
Escher. I got a lot out of both of these, I hope other people did as
well.
The bottom line on Surrealism: if you take random symbols, and keep
them within a framework that resembles a narrative, then people will
read and attempt to understand the narrative in their own terms. The
disjunctures will give them Surrealist experience.
The bottom line on Escher: many algorithmic approaches to his visual
style could be done. Some are mathematically more demanding than others.
So having exhausted both of these subjects, would anyone care to take
on a thornier narrative problem, say, "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare?
You can't get away with random events quite so easily in this one.
If nobody likes Hamlet, or the subject of "traditional" narratives,
then how about something else to talk about. This list appears to
have died, and needs reviving.
Cheers,
Brandon