mimeogram

Earlier than usual, I encountered some more words: we have returned to the problem of knowledge through images... conscious, while I was trying to get some sleep – establishing a clear distinction between images produced by artistic means and images resulting from rigorously applied scientific procedures – a little hesitation revealed in the way they are organized brings the operation of chance or of automatism to the mind – we stand opposed to the tendency to reproduce sequences addressed to the world at large, but through crystal attention to symbols, certain valid theoretical contents, these peculiar verbal formations, which, by the use of pictorial techniques, seem, as the case may be, to point to the unknown that surrounds us – they appear and strikingly seem to find a staggering materialization of the highest order in indecipherable images: “The Velocitus Tremenjus is zipping along by a train” – “Beware the vile subterfuge of zenophobic, fascist leprachauns” – In generally accepting a complete lack of purpose or meaning, surrealist practitioners will find that the way toward blossoming lies in the absurd use of aplastic, objective and entirely non-artistic procedures – these begin in the inner ear as a remarkably autonomous word-group: “A LOVE AFFAIR WITH STUPIDITY” – I wish to look at them very closely once again, without being prompted by anything clear or structured, to find something other than what is commonly described as meaning