You say surrealism is anti-fascist. Then you say cruelty and absurdity are the same thing (two sides of the same coin). Then you try to clarify by saying they are two separate things but have a commonality (two coins same side). I think ying/yang is more fitting, and quicker to the punch, in that there can be a little cruelty in absurdity and vise versa, which you were dancing around with your ill fitting metaphor. So, yes, I don’t think so. Clarity is in the eye of the beer holder.
Your metaphor is not working. Cruelty and absurdity are Ying and Yang?
When you write a declaration of peace with the blood of your enemies.
“Sir this is rescue for puppies, why did you make a flag out of their pelt?”
It’s a surrealist metaphor
I’m going to use this in the future.
“What? Your calculations don’t make any sense.”
“It’s surrealist math.”
“…”
“Pfft I knew you wouldn’t get it”
You don’t find it so? Maybe I read too much Vonnegut as a kid, it seems clear to me.
You say surrealism is anti-fascist. Then you say cruelty and absurdity are the same thing (two sides of the same coin). Then you try to clarify by saying they are two separate things but have a commonality (two coins same side). I think ying/yang is more fitting, and quicker to the punch, in that there can be a little cruelty in absurdity and vise versa, which you were dancing around with your ill fitting metaphor. So, yes, I don’t think so. Clarity is in the eye of the beer holder.
There’s absurdity in cruelty… there’s cruelty in absurdity… kinda works… like a dark yin yang.