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#realism

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In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and function and nothing is left out of place. Storytelling is thus at a discount and like everything else in a world ruled by the laws of exchange value, literature is required to submit itself to the requirements of the market and must learn, like any other commodity, to adapt and serve needs that lie outside of itself and its concrete value. It is forced to stand not for itself but for an ideological cause of one sort or another, whether it be political, social or literary. It cannot exist for itself: like everything else it has to be justified. And for this very reason the power of storytelling is automatically devalued. Literature is reduced to the status of complimentary utilitarian functions: as a pastime to provide distraction and entertainment, or as a heightened activity that would claim to explore 'great truths' about the human condition.


Michael Richardson


#commodity #entertainment #literature #stories #surrealism

Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?


Christopher Paolini


#religion

Ai pus nitroglicerină sub perna lui dumnezeu ...


Saşa Pană


#religion #surrealism #religion

Philip K. Dick died and now we only need what is strictly necessary.


Roberto Bolaño


#romantic

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.


Nelson Goodman


#philosophy #philosophy-of-science #pragmatism #science

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.


Joë Bousquet


#echo #surrealism #surreal

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.


André Breton


#fantastique #fantasy #surrealism #surreal

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.


Joë Bousquet


#sea #surrealism #surreal

The imaginary is what tends to become real.


André Breton


#imaginattion #reality #surrealism #surreal

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.


André Breton


#stars #surrealism #surreal






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