John Baker’s Blog

All a man can betray is his conscience. [...]

If he were a musician, Herman Hesse said, he could write a two-part melody in which the two lines of notes and sounds would complement, combat, determine and correspond with each other, which would be mutually and reciprocally related in the most vital and intimate way; and yet anyone able to read music would be [...]

SURREALISTS & SYMBOLISTS
The Surrealists stood against everything which mutilates man’s inner life, or stifles his imagination for the sake of peace and quiet, law and order and the smooth running of the social machine.
Surrealism constantly poses the question: Whether in the eyes of the society in which we live, the ‘compleat person’ is a ‘crime [...]