From: Stuart Inman <S.Inman-AT-greenwich.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:46:09 GMT Subject: Its like deja vu all over again I realised that I was getting very, very worked up over an accumulation of small things. So much so that my sense of humour took a walk and left me reading this list by myself. Now the real reason I was in this state was not the contents of the list, but some of the messages fanned the flames. Somewhere I got an idea into my head over Celine's things on murder as art that enraged me and it was only at the weekend, listening to Bowie's "Outside" which Frank mentioned the other day, that I thought that this was doing the same thing in a different way. This is just an example. What I did find myself thinking is that htere seemed to be a lot of loose talk about violence and connecting it with Surrealism in a vague way. For instance, the thing about running into the street and firing into the crowd. Breton came to regret that remark because people read it in a very literalist way. He referred back to it really as an emotion rather than a suggestion. Thank goodness for that. I have certainly felt like that, but I would be a sorry fool, even worse than I am, if I acted that out. William is as reprehensible as ever, saying that he would not pull the trigger, but would provide the gun for someone who would. I think this remark was in bad faith. You put yourself in the same boat as those reactionary morons who support the IRA from a safe distance, and with less reason, a juvenile addiction to what you would like to think as a gratuitous act. I would like to think out the correlations between revolution and violence. I think there are too many people with little murderous fantasies of revolution that get us precisely nowhere. This sort of thinking infects us more than we care to consider - the bastards!!!!!!!!!!! I would like to blow their brains out!!!!!!!!! POWPOWPOWPOWPOWPOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stuart
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