squeezing out sparks
Oct. 22nd, 2002 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdonark"See no illusions
No martyrs and no kings.
No trains to Heaven,
for the Kingdom lies within"
--Bill Nelson
Andre Breton, the "purist" of the surrealist movement, said that the "simplest Surrealist act" consisted of "going into the street, revolver in hand, and shooting into the crowd for as long as you can". I believe that the time has passed for chic celebrations of violence. If there is a spark within us, it is the spark which permits us to put aside the bloody anthills of our evolutionary development, not the spark that paints its blood on our foreheads.
No martyrs and no kings.
No trains to Heaven,
for the Kingdom lies within"
--Bill Nelson
Andre Breton, the "purist" of the surrealist movement, said that the "simplest Surrealist act" consisted of "going into the street, revolver in hand, and shooting into the crowd for as long as you can". I believe that the time has passed for chic celebrations of violence. If there is a spark within us, it is the spark which permits us to put aside the bloody anthills of our evolutionary development, not the spark that paints its blood on our foreheads.
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Date: 2002-10-23 07:45 am (UTC)