“It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.” -G.C. Lichtenberg Length of a quartz stone shaped like a tooth—2.1″ Height of the flagpole visible from my window when standing in front [...]
Back in December 2019, a few of us played a game of Surr-prophecies for 2020. The results, perhaps, are not totally off the mark... January: Cruise ships become infested with juvenile hedgehogs & possum, leading to a economic downturn. An outbreak of Invisible racoon cause havoc in the Disneyland machinery, causing countless accidents. The gastric [...]
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As old as tomorrow... With untold floors of FRESH exciting MERCHANDISE, exquisite fixturing, a large, easy-to-use PARKADE OF THE DAMNED and a fine staff of ATTENTIVE SALES ENTITIES... It’s OLD MALL! This volume presents the results of parallel surrealist expeditions to “old malls” in two North American cities. Undertaken in early 2020, these “gothic” experiences [...]
The following game text was sent to us by Justin Orlando Though we may differ in various facets of belief, we are united by a common quest. The liberation of the imagination, the irrational and subconscious sublimated half of us needed to create an absolute/surreal world. It's under the auspice of this ideal, that I [...]
Now available from Coach House Books and bookstores, a stunning new journey into the oneiric wonderland from S.D. Chrostowska: In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and prophetic novel of ideas depicts the end of human reverie. "S. D. Chrostowska achieves unexpected buoyancy in spite of the intensity of her material. Permission, certain [...]
“Either this is madness or it is hell.’ ‘It is neither,’ replied the voices of the sphere, ‘it is simply more reality.” Fresh on the heels of Mattias Forshage's new novel... Another surrealist, dimension-hopping novella by Merl Fluin has just been released online for free! Having already read it, we can confirm it is a [...]
A story about everyday life in the Arctic, and more specifically the small town of Churchill, Manitoba. At the far end of the railroad, the world begins. Once there, you can’t be sure which is the direction towards civilisation. Maybe it is geese or lemmings that are regular people, and you are a mad person [...]
Casi Cline has recently released a new book "The Star Opens Slowly: Dreams, Poems, and Other Things", a collection of texts spanning the years 2015-2019. A Mormyrid Double! Purchase here: https://tinyurl.com/w8shhua
by Craig Wilson Originally published in the Arabic-language surrealist journal "The Room" Urban exploration has been an important part of surrealism since the movement’s early days as you can see in Breton’s Nadja or Aragon’s Paris Peasant. This notion of exploration diverges from the usual activity of ‘going somewhere’ in that the terrain provides the [...]
