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Stores as Magic Places
When I was a child the only truly magic spaces were stores. Giving money to another person across a counter was the most highly charged experience imaginable, and when it was combined with looking directly at a grumpy old man at a corner drug store with a Hitler moustache, as if a mere child had the right to spend money in a world in which children were second-class citizens, it was fun beyond imagining. Most day...
Desire: The Drive & Death of Surrealism
[caption id="attachment_12621" align="alignright" width="250"] Philippe Soupault by Béatrice MousliFlammarion, 2010, 473 pgsPurchase at Amazon[/caption] Philippe Soupault is no longer a well-known writer on this side of the Atlantic, although his work was very well-known in the 1920s and 1930s, the period during which he co-founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton. In 1926 Soupault was ejected from t...
