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I have tried for years, as a philosopher, [to say what reality is], but in words it comes out all wrong: in black and white with no colour. It comes out that life is a perfectly and absolutely meaningless happening —nothing but a display of endlessly variegated vibrations, neither good nor evil, right nor wrong—a display which, though marvelously woven together, is like a Rorschach blot upon which we are projecting the fantasies of personality, purpose, history, religion, law, science, evolution and even the basic instinct to survive. And this projection is, in turn, part of the happening. Thus, when you try to pin it down you get the banality of formal nihilism, wherein the universe is seen as a “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

A Tribute to Alan Watts - disinformation (via kenyatta)

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Wayfairing Strangers

Surreal Mixed Media collage Art By Ayham Jabr.

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Golden Knight by JasonTN

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Morocco, 2014

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March: The Exquisite Corpse (Line Pair Version)

A Year of Surrealist Writing Games

The exquisite corpse is the Surrealist writing game par excellence and has many variations. This one comes courtesy of Stephen Dunn and Lawrence Raab, who used it in writng Winter at the Caspian Sea. They write:

[O]ne of us would write a first line; then the other would write two more, folding the paper so that only the second was visible. Pairs of lines were added until the page was reasonably full, and the person who hadn’t started would complete the poem with a single final line. […] Folding the paper contributed greatly to the fun, hiding enough of the poem so that we could be surprised by how it added up-how the quirky challenges of any one line would be extended, or deflected, by the next gesture.

For an internet-based iteration of this game, use Google Docs or some other collaborative text editor. Hide all but the most recent line by turning the font white or highlighting in black. When everyone has taken the agreed upon number of turns, simply change the font color of the whole text to reveal the poem.

If you’d like write one with me this afternoon, shoot me a note. Submit poems you write with your friends using this method.

Read the Exquisite Corpse poems here.