The Inn of the Dawn Horse
"Though he may later try to pull himself together on
occasion, having felt that he is losing by slow degrees all reason for living, incapable as he has become of being able to rise to some exceptional situation such as love, he will hardly succeed. This is because he henceforth belongs body and soul
to an imperative practical necessity which demands his
constant attention. None of his gestures will be expansive,
none of his ideas generous or far-reaching. In his mind’s eye,
events real or imagined will be seen only as they relate to a
welter of similar events, events in which he has not
participated, abortive events."
Extract from the 1924 Surrealist manifesto by André Breton
