Edgar Allan Poe

Yesterday I received a Facebook message from a dead man. At least I thought he was dead, but there he was on his Facebook page, celebrating his birthday, inviting me to write on his Timeline.

The best place to discuss surrealism is at lunch in an Indian restaurant. The waiter will ask if you like your surrealism "hard" or "soft." There's no right answer, it's completely a matter of individual taste. To like it hard implies a tolerance for heresy, as Dan notes in his email to me of 1/29/14, while preferring it soft connotes an inclination to favor the status quo.

If freedom is doing your own thinking--not letting others do your thinking for you--then we're just going to have to get used to terrorism. The necessity of having a villain was disproved by The Cold War, but after the fact, when everything was structured upon having an ever-changing, constant panoply of enemies and it was much too late to change course.

A terrorist builds a helicopter out of his heart, and lights the whole thing on fire so that it can be dropped from a great height on those who've made war endless, so that war may continue to flourish among all its losers.