“In the universe,
there are things that are known,
and things that are unknown, and in between,
there are doors.”
As above, so below.
Literature As Art
Novel Poster has taken classic world literature and used the text to create negative space art.
Brilliant idea.
Gorgeous product. I want one (Actually, several all of them).
The Jodo Box Set
Can’t wait to dive into these. The box includes:
- Fando y Lis
- El Topo
- The Holy Mountain
- La Cravate
- La Constellation (a Jodorowsky documentary)
- The Holy Mountain Soundtrack
- El Topo Soundtrack
How nice.
SURREALISM, n. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express—verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner—the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by though, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
[Source: Manifestos of Surrealism by André Breton]
How to Be a Poet
This from Arthur Rimbaud:
I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences. This is an unspeakable torture during which he needs all his faith and superhuman strength, and during which he becomes the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed – and the great learned one! – among men. – For he arrives at the unknown! Because he has cultivated his own soul – which was rich to begin with – more than any other man! He reaches the unknown; and even if, crazed, he ends up by losing the understanding of his visions, at least he has seen them! Let him die charging through those unutterable, unnameable things: other horrible workers will come; they will begin from the horizons where he has succumbed!
Not many today would sacrifice so much for their art!