"The essential fault of surrealism is that it……" — Wallace Stevens
"The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination."
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No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
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