I would like to thank all authors who contributed to this blog. Special mentions:  Journalizer (whose voice I miss); Endymion "The Fair" (who bore more brunts than he should have); Grendlewulf (who moved on before me to some other enchanted land), Scottz (who is creating elsewhere, but still creating); and of course Benoist, the aloof Frenchman.

Your voices were welcome as they were well intentioned and sincere.

I leave you with a few quotes and a short poem.  Plus a song.


"I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refuses to admit defeat, sets off from whatever point he chooses, along any other path save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can. Such and such an image, by which he deems it opportune to indicate his progress and which may result, perhaps, in his receiving public acclaim, is to me, I must confess, a matter of complete indifference."  -- Andre Breton

"Usually in all works of art that have been conceived from within outwards, and generously nourished from the author's mind, the moment in which he begins to execute is one of extreme perplexity and strain. Artists of indifferent energy and an imperfect devotion to their own ideal make this ungrateful effort once for all; and, having formed a style, adhere to it through life. But those of a higher order cannot rest content with a process which, as they continue to employ it, must infallibly degenerate towards the academic and the cut-and-dried." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Ce monde n’est que très relativement à la mesure de la pensée et les incidents de ce genre ne sont que les épisodes jusqu’ici les plus marquants d’une guerre d’indépendence à laquelle je me fais gloire de participer." -- Breton


Realistically seasoning,
His idealistic reasoning,
He galloped past ruin,
Having carved and hewn,
The right of nativity,
For him, creativity.
... Like a stallion of thought,
Loosed upon the plain of futures.
{RJK, 1979, Mexico City}