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this is my latest undertaking

on the occasion of launching the infamous "smack edition" i had a friend of mine accompany my reading on his synthesiser. he upstaged me by over-indulging in this stuff, collapsing and causing police and ambulance presence. those are the breaks

I've always imagined dreyers passion of joan d'arc a massive influence on: fantastic planet was written by Roland Topor

i also would not recommend it as a party drug, it internalises you in a not fun social way

let's say you have a gram and you do a few lines and have a mad experience. next day you do the rest you feel nothing. it's a question of pacing yourself

the only thing i can add is that it's a drug that creates a tolerance quickly. when i had access to it i would only take it once per month if that. one of the few sensible decisions of my life

@WashYourHands

it's almost worth the sufferings and privations of existence to read these lines

that's the one that sticks in my memory

is that the mistaken-for-the-Messiah story? edited to make less spoilery

like prynne

We're still in the game, right?

obviously since I'm in Paris and I am me I chose to mark the centenary by going to Breton's grave. His epitaph is je cherche l'or du temps (i seek the gold of time). i wondered if anyone else would be there for the same reason as me but the whole cemetery was deserted.

maybe this is why they're having a big Surrealists exhibition at the pompidou centre? they had loads of great masturbator style wackiness but the most interesting exhibits i saw (apart from the old editions of Maldoror) were Brassaï's photos of Paris at night

there are dada manifestos but they predate the surrealist ones. also another surrealist manifesto by a rival of breton's called Gloy you never hear about him! Stewart home wrote a neoist manifesto I'm pretty sure.

the surrealist manifesto was published 100 years ago today.

Fleurs du Mal absinthe, to be consumed "according to the secular ritual"

tabs not up to our usual standard

"popularity used to bring people together, now anti-popularity brings anti-people together."