Sunday, October 28, 2007

Breton, "Freedom of Love"

Andre Breton -- the man who wrote "Freedom of Love," the piece about the poet's "with the waist of an otter" -- was the leader of a movement called the Surrealists. They felt that a lot of what matters to humans is subconscious or semi-conscious and not completely logical, so they used startling analogies to summon feelings and things that they felt were obscured by what we usually consider as logic or as common sense.

Is there conflict between human logic and human feeling, and if so, how does that work?

Some say that "human logic" is an oxymoron, but how can logic happen without a human logician?

If each of us senses separately, what is "common sense"?

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