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[dreamer_easy]

Quentin Crisp, writing in Resident Alien:

Its [Derek Jarman's movie The Garden] style is what is glibly called surrealistic. Whatever this term suggests to connoisseurs, to real people it means that, by placing them in a deliberately inappropriate setting, an intense reality is bestowed upon objects that most of us take for granted. For instance, a kettle on a stove will instantly be recognised however vaguely it is delineated, but if it is standing in the middle of the Sahara desert, it must proclaim its kettlehood very loudly indeed if it is not to become a pyramid."