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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 12:54:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Davey <dmw7993-AT-ksu.edu>
Subject: what is surreality?


Hi I just have a question about the definition of the surreal.  My take 
is that the term describes a meta-physical twilight zone where 
imagination and outside reality overlap.  This condition of existing in a 
transitional space between  boundaries, or overlapping them, is a ubiquitous 
marker of the concept of surreality.
	So, if the term surreal refers to a state of being semi-real or 
quasi-real, then the obvious question is 'where is the base-line?'  Whose 
reality serves as the standard by which all others will be judged.  If a 
person lives predominantly within himself, is this not his reality, 
regardless of whether he meets the criterion for 'sanity'?  I guess this 
is just the same question as 'who decides who is sane?' Am I onb the 
wrong channel?
	Davey 


   

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