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andre

Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

About Me

incapable of accepting the fate assigned to me, my highest perceptions outraged by this denial of justice, i refrain from adapting my existence to the ridiculous conditions of existence here below...This profile was edited with awful precision; V2.5

My Interests

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

I'd like to meet:

people who can freak their imaginations...

Books:

LES CHAMPS MAGNÉTIQUES (1920) LES PAS PERDUS (1924) MANIFESTE DU SURRÉALISME (1924) NADJA (1928) Mad Love (1937) ARCANE 17 (1945)

Heroes:

beauty will be CONVULSIVE or not at allmy peers (Dali, Ernst, Man Ray, Elaurd)

My Blog

Always for the First Time

Always for the first timeHardly do I know you by sightYou return at some hour of the night to a house at an angle to my windowA wholly imaginary houseIt is there that from one second to the nextIn the...
Posted by andre on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 07:51:00 PST

SECRETS OF THE MAGICAL: surrealist art

first and last draftAfter you have settled yourself in a place as favorable as possible to the concentration of your mind upon itself, have writing materials brought to you. Put yourself in as passive...
Posted by andre on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:20:00 PST

manifesto of surrealsim

So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fragile in life--real life, I mean--that in the end this belief is lost. Man, that inveterate dreamer, daily more discontent with his destiny, has trou...
Posted by andre on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:13:00 PST

a thousand thousand times

To Francis PacabiaUnder cover of footsteps returning at evening to a tower inhabited by mysterious symbolsEleven in number the snow that melts as I grasp it in my handThis snow i love has dreams and i...
Posted by andre on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:33:00 PST

reading me

one scholars reading
Posted by andre on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:52:00 PST