Another map, this time for Mirek. This is the "Surrealist Map of the World" (From Vanetes, Brussels, 1929). Interestingly enough, the US doesn't even exist in this one.
Katharine Harmon mentions this map in her book "You Are Here", a sort of Surrealist's manifesto from 1925:
“Even more than patriotism – which is a quite commonplace sort of hysteria, though emptier and shorter-lived than most – we are disgusted by the idea of belonging to a country at all, which is the most bestial and least philosophic of the concepts to which we are all subjected.. Wherever Western civilization is dominant, all human contact has disappeared, except contact from which money can be made – payment in hard cash.”
Again, click on the map to enlarge it.
M, feedback?
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In return:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/09/living_poetry.html
Only now I´ve noticed the links to me and Daniel. You are exaggerating, brother.
"y venerado entre carros, era yo el prÃncipe de las ciudades de manzanas..."
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