surreal
Diving DDS
"surreal"?
H. E. Taylor
<divi...@aol.com> Diving DDS wrote:
>
> Anyone have a fav. quote from a novel or other literary source using the word
> "surreal"?
>
This is not what you are looking for, but you might
get a kick out of it - The Surrealist Compliment Generator.
http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG
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The Sanity Inspector
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>Anyone have a fav. quote from a novel or other literary source using the word
>"surreal"?
How about quotes from surrealists, even if they don't use the word in
the quotes?
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a
comprehensible work is the product of a journalist... We need works
that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
-- Tristan Tzara [Okay, he's a dadaist, but...]
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to
unwrap.
-- ibid
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
-- Rene Magritte
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like,
interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most
artists only repeat themselves.
-- Marcel Duchamp
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
-- ibid
There is no must in art because art is free.
-- Wassily Kandinsky
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam
April
> Anyone have a fav. quote from a novel or other literary source using the
word
> "surreal"?
QUOTATION: I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their
realistic ponds.
ATTRIBUTION: Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth
Selection, New York (1993).
QUOTATION: The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has
become the most surreal of subjects-making it possible ... to see a new beauty
in what is vanishing.
ATTRIBUTION: Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. "Melancholy Objects," On
Photography (1977).
~~April
Joe Fineman
> QUOTATION: I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back
> into their realistic ponds.
> ATTRIBUTION: Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms,
> Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).
Was he perhaps alluding to Marianne Moore, who called for poets to
create "imaginary gardens with real toads in them"?
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> "April" <apr...@nycap.rr.comedy> writes:
> > QUOTATION: I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back
> > into their realistic ponds.
> > ATTRIBUTION: Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms,
> > Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).
> Was he perhaps alluding to Marianne Moore, who called for poets to
> create "imaginary gardens with real toads in them"?
> --- Joe Fineman j...@TheWorld.com
Joe,
That's a thought!
I would guess yes.
~~April
Paul Marrane
"April" <apr...@nycap.rr.comedy> wrote:
...Modern poets seek to create imaginary toilets with real turds in
them...
--
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paul_m...@hotmail.com red herring. But it isn't green! Well, you could
paint it green. But it doesn't hang on the wall!
What, there's a law you can't hang it on the wall?
But it doesn't whistle! Nu, so it doesn't whistle.
The Sanity Inspector
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>...Modern poets seek to create imaginary toilets with real turds in
>them...
A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon.
The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
[...]
-- Maya Angelou, from "On the Pulse of Morning", Clinton inauguration,
1993
No rhyme, no meter, and it's about dinosaur turds. Maya
Angelou, celebrating the most solemn and momentous ritual of the
republic, can think of nothing to write about except dinosaur turds.
-- P. J. O'Rourke, _The CEO of the Sofa_, 2001
Graham J Weeks
Marrane <paul_m...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...Modern poets seek to create imaginary toilets with real turds in
> them...
>
OTH modern artists give us real bottles with real urine. Are these what
used to be called piss-artists?
ObQ
I am sick of shit masquerading as art.- Brian Sewell on The Turner Prize,
1998, Evening Standard
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alohacyberian
<weeks-g-0102...@bh-cw31-036.pool.dircon.co.uk>...
> In article <paul_marrane-1D76...@news.fu-berlin.de>, Paul
> Marrane <paul_m...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ...Modern poets seek to create imaginary toilets with real turds in
> > them...
> >
>
> OTH modern artists give us real bottles with real urine. Are these what
> used to be called piss-artists?
>
> ObQ
>
> I am sick of shit masquerading as art.- Brian Sewell on The Turner Prize,
> 1998, Evening Standard
>
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Sheila Dundee
> ~ Usenet newsgroup alt.humor.puns
Old light bulb joke:
How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A fish
which is really only an excuse to comment
Women need a man like fish need a bicycle, normally attributed to good ol'
Gloria, are apparently the words of Irina Dunn, an Aussie who wrote it on a
bathroom wall while a student at Sydney Uni .. After being *picked up*by
Women's Movement it was then accredited to Steinem.
Any yeahs or nays on this?
Sheila
Daniel P. B. Smith
"Sheila Dundee" <she...@chariot.net.au> wrote:
I suppose I'm going to have to listen my way through ten hours of
old-time radio CD's to answer this one definitively... I should have
made a note of it at the time... but somewhere in "OLD-TIME RADIO MASTER
DETECTIVES", Radio Spirits item #4467, on a show that aired somewhere
between 1944 and 1952 or so, the hardboiled detective calls something
"as useful as a bicycle to a mermaid."
So IMHO there was some kind of saying or catchphrase that was making the
rounds back then, and I strongly suspect some feminists adapted it.
For what it's worth, Google searches on "bicycle to a mermaid" and
"mermaid needs a bicycle" turn up nothing.
--
Daniel P. B. Smith
Email address: dpbs...@world.std.com
"Lifetime forwarding" address: dpbs...@alum.mit.edu
alohacyberian
<3c5b9...@news.chariot.net.au>...
OBQ:
"I must confess that my imagination, in spite even of spurring, refuses to
see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and
floundering at sea."
~ H. G. Wells, _Anticipations_, 1901
alohacyberian
up 5,110 results.
OBQ:
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Daniel P. B. Smith <dpbs...@bellatlantic.net> wrote in article
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Daniel P. B. Smith
"alohacyberian" <alohac...@att.net> wrote:
> But, a Google search of "bicycle" +mermaid [quotation marks included] turns
> up 5,110 results.
Well, yes, I tried that, but the first hundred or so didn't seem to be
relevant--they were things like big pages that happened to mention
bicycles and mermaids on them separate places... like a product recall
page that mentions a problem with a certain kind of bicycle fork and
Disney recalling some inadequately fire-retarded _Little Mermaid_
costumes.
There's an actual picture of a "mermaid" on a bicycle in the Coney
Island Mermaid Parade...
...but I couldn't find any references to the phrase "as useful as a
bicycle to a mermaid," could you?
alohacyberian
overwhelming! ;-) KM
OBQ:
"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."
~ Euripides, _Alexander_
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The Sanity Inspector
so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of
painting a soft watch.
-- Salvador Dali
William C Waterhouse
...
> A Rock, A River, A Tree
> Hosts to species long since departed,
> Marked the mastodon.
> The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
> Of their sojourn here
> On our planet floor,
> Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
> Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
> [...]
> -- Maya Angelou, from "On the Pulse of Morning", Clinton inauguration,
> 1993
> No rhyme, no meter, and it's about dinosaur turds. Maya
> Angelou, celebrating the most solemn and momentous ritual of the
> republic, can think of nothing to write about except dinosaur turds.
> -- P. J. O'Rourke, _The CEO of the Sofa_, 2001
The remnants left by the extinct animals are of course
primarily dry bones. But apparently Mr. O'Rourke's mind, like
water, always seeks its own level.
William C. Waterhouse
Penn State
ObQuote:
Lift up your eyes upon
This day breaking for you.
Give birth again
To the dream.
Women, children, men,
Take it into the palms of your hands.
Mold it into the shape of your most
Private need. Sculpt it into
The image of your most public self.
Lift up your hearts
Each new hour holds new chances
For new beginnings.
Do not be wedded forever
To fear, yoked eternally
To brutishness.
--- Maya Angelou, from "On the Pulse of Morning"
alohacyberian
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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to
be serious when people laugh."
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Colonelry in a Coalmine
>
> w...@math.psu.edu wrote in <a3pooo$14...@r02n01.cac.psu.edu>...
> >
> > In <3c5a1a8b...@news.mindspring.com>, The Sanity Inspector writes:
> >
> > > No rhyme, no meter, and it's about dinosaur turds.
> >
> > primarily dry bones. But apparently Mr. O'Rourke's mind, like
> > water, always seeks its own level.
>
It's always open season on cultural reactionaries! Sometimes a mocker
gets mocked; it's better than letting the dignified into the game.
-:-
Art, he said, was not fashionable, not international,
but eternal, like the national spirit of Germany, and the
artist must set up a monument to his country, not to him-
self. You may not object to this; indeed when Hitler dis-
tinguishes art from fashion, you may quite well agree. But
he goes on: "As for the degenerate artists, I forbid them
to force their so-called experiences upon the public. If
they do see fields blue, they are deranged, and should go
to an asylum. If the only pretend to see them blue, they
are criminals, and should go to prison. I will purge the
nation of them, and let no one take part in their corruption--
his day of punishment will come." . . . This threat of a purge
runs through all Nazi culture: the idea that one person may
like one thing and another another is intolerable to it; it
cannot be happy unless it bullies.
E. M. Forster, radio broadcast
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Kevin G. Barkes
> > > primarily dry bones. But apparently Mr. O'Rourke's mind, like
> > > water, always seeks its own level.
I don't agree. "Left dry tokens" implies an active role. Leaving one's
remains to become fossilized is passive. Depositing the precursors of
coprolites is active.
But then, I might just be seeking my own level.
As an aside, let me thank you for your contributions to this
newsgroup. When debates arise, I await your definitive postings.