andre breton

i've been reading lots and lots of essays and manifestos by this guy named Andre' Breton. and i think he is so dope. he's one of the smartest writers and i find myself not being able to stop thinking about what he has to say. he started the surrealism movement way back in the 1920's and i'm totally into it. mostly the "automatic writing". where you sort of just stop thinking and start writing as fast as possible:

"Put yourself in as passive, or receptive, a state of mind as you can. Forget about your genius, your talents, and the talents of everyone else. Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. Write quickly, without any preconceived subject, fast enough so that you will not remember what you're writing and be tempted to reread what you have written. The first sentence will come spontaneously, so compelling is the truth that with every passing second there is a sentence unknown to our consciousness which is only crying out to be heard." - Andre' Breton.

so i really tried it. and this is what i got:


gravity to be able to feel what i've never felt before. to understand a logic beyond reasoning. to listen undoubtedly to every motion beneath the ground. to be unaware of the entire world and its surrounding planets. to give to myself this one moment of complete and necessary freedom that which i cannot obtain in any other way than through this second released into time just moments ago. to fully understand the thoughts that boil deep within me and to set them into paper.



you can think its cool, or really lame, or maybe sort of crazy. maybe it doesn't make sense to you at all. but to me. it all makes perfect sense. and all i want is to learn more and more and more and more and just keep reading. surrealism is cool.