imagination

                 Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality . . .

Carefulcareful warning himself

                                        Careful not to slip down the un- path unsparing again

it was a trigger an interruption he had to guard against because theyd sweep him away and he didnt have enough white Hansel and Gretel pebbles in his pockets to pinpoint a path find his way back from where he departed

                                                                                                                  not that he was particularly interested in finding where he begannot  some queerweird sense of mastering himself

his wife who unfortunately died  had nearbegged him for that which he did not   he preferred the unruliness unexpectedness of it

                  TAME   he should tame himself

Jesus babe youll recall thawaswha attracted you to me

                                                             So you said

she either thought hed grow out of it or assumed he was a project she could finish

    Beloved imagination Andre Breton 1924  Surrealist Manifesto

Gerard de Nerval influenced by Symbolists and Surrealists took his pet lobster on a promenade he walked Thibault on a blue velvet leash his point was that humans made themselves masters of their environment and the beasts around them

      but they lost the Sense of the universe the natural order among beings earthlings  they do not recognise obligations that go with their mastery

Eh quoi, tout est sensible. All things feel.

unlikely Nervals act was as comic as it might have been understood

                                                                        Thibault knows the depths and the secret of the ocean and does not willynilly seek to harm anything

   Nerval was believed to be mad

didnt sound mad to him

sometime between 15July – 29Sep 2002

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