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“Beautiful as the chance encounter, on an operating table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella.”
Comte de Lautreamont, Songs of Maldoror (1869)
For the Surrealists, the work of Lautreamont was an inspiration and this line, taken from one of his poems, captures the essence of surrealist thinking – their search for the marvelous – the surreal - the eureka moment?