A book of contemporary surrealist poetry. The publication builds on the famous sentence by Comte de Lautreamont of ‘a ’chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissection table...’ which became enshrined as surrealist process and myth. Max Ernst defined the idea as ‘a linking of two realities that by all appearances have nothing to link them, in a setting that by all appearances does not fit them’ . This publication creates meetings between sewing machines and umbrellas through date of manufacture, with excerpts from ‘Les Chants de Maldoror’, written by Lautréamont in 1874. A forced fragmented translation from French into English by the translation tool, BabelFish.
148mm x 210mm. b/w. 32pp.
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