Dreamer Easy

Finally saw Un Chien de Andalou (1929). Who'd've thought that a movie which starts with that famous violent act against a woman would continue in much the same vein, if less spectacularly. (Why does every YT doco about Surrealism, however G-rated, have to include a clip of the notorious bit with the eye?)

I can't think straight -- the depression is crushing -- and yet I'm finding introductions to Dada and Surrealism nourishing, inspiring. I pondered how to do a Dadaist Doctor Who in response to the current show, but realised that the current show is already incoherent. Mind you, with tedious battles about continuity once more raging in fandom, a nonsensical, collage approach to the series is very tempting. But Surrealism, or something like it, seems to be where I started. Can I use it in the hard-ish SF I'm writing now?

The alien in my Sixth Doctor novel Blue Box was inspired by Magritte's painting Left Behind by the Shadow.