“If in a cluster of grapes there are no two alike, why do you want me to describe this grape by the other, by all the others … ? Our brains are dulled by the incurable mania of wanting to make the unknown known, classifiable … It is pointless to add that experience itself has found itself increasingly circumscribed. It paces back and forth in a cage from which it is more and more difficult to make it emerge … Forbidden is any kind of search for truth that is not in conformance with accepted practices …”
—Andre Breton on obsession with consciousness, the nature of the ineffable and “the incurable mania” from the Surrealist Manifesto
June 2010
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