his summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass. The earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost. It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions. Existenc e is elsewhere.

ENCYCLOPEDIA. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.... See more

SURREALISM, n. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express --verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner --the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the though t, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern