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Robert Morpheal (morpheal@sympatico.ca) 2005/09/03 21:18

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Breton was a humorist.

The problem in that is that his humour is too obscurantist and
intellectual for most, if not all, academics, to understand, and
academics are the aribtrars of intellectual meaning.

So I have already written a heresy.  For which I would likely
be ignored.

R.M.



david7gable@aol.com wrote:
>
> A question for all of you surrealists and students of surrealism.
> Where does Andre Breton discuss such types of beauty as beauty that is
> "explosante/fixe"?  I know that Boulez used this for the title of a
> piece, but I know next to nothing about Breton.  (En anglzis, the
> complete phrase may be "Beauty will be fixed/exploding or it will not
> be.")
>
> -david gable

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