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Created on Sunday, 23 October 2011 18:55

Published on Sunday, 23 October 2011 18:55

Written by Desiree Lourens

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I can't find the book I had by Levy, Julian, anywhere. He took surrealism to the states, the united states that is.  He died the year I completed my secondary education and was born two years after my  paternal grandfather.  Now, there was a quote, which,  when I first read  and having read it several times thereafter, made sense to me in a theoretical  sort of manner.  Though  only recently,  I'd say,  within the past decade, give or take a year or less,  that the quote is  seen as being  so close to the bone by me.  It's  always been so close to the bone, but it's  just that I was not quite there,  mentally and cynically. Of course, I was,  immature.  I'd read it in a hazy vague sort of way, repeatedly I read it in  this way. I wouldn't have thrown the book  away ,no,  nor given it away either.  I'd read the sentence  in the past tense,  and repeatedly read it in the past tense because it was written before, I believe 1936. Something like 'they see new talent appear on the horizon and their intention is to crush each and every new talent appearing on the horizon'.  Only now do I understand the dynamism of the phenomenon he observed and put into words.  The quintessential essence of the inner wo/man has always been this way, the way Levy descirbes,  it's just that it takes and needs seasons of madness to see what Levy meant and how it touches and has touched each and every  one who's dared question the universals. I believe it was Marcel du Champ who made the observation that a man is cut in half by a window. Isn't that ironic because when we penetrate the veil this is what we see, the fullness of man diminished by that which is hidden behind the persona, the mask, the pleasantries of how we, each and every one, men and women alike, strive to build an image of ourselves that is greater than we could ever be. Pathetic aren't we. And we pontificate the idea of our collective humanity, rather it's a duality and that of which you are unaware isn't necessarily that of which I am unconscious.