The film he made with <Dali>, duly alluded to by <Dylan> in <Visions of Johanna>:

Jewels and binoculars
Hang from the head of the mule

Plus <Breton>, the terrorist.

From <What is Surrealism>

The perfect expression of surrealism would be to empty a machine gun into a crowd at a busy shopping mall.

I liked <Chien Andalou>, in demi-defence of <Dali>. Supposedly about "nothing," but

A. it has a discernible narrative

B. almost every image is suffused with a Freudian obssession with the equivalence of <sex and death>.

C. Kicks ass

If <Dom> were a chesspiece, he'd be the King.

King<dom>.

Get it?

HAHAHAHAHAHAA

I haven't the foggiest, and I'm not digging back through 100 pages to find out.

Maybe you better give him the old <Greenaway alert>:

"I think someone is trying to kill all the black and white animals"

So I've been coming here pretty much from the beginning! I'd never have guessed that.

"poor old <pi>" seems to have put <Plato> off posting altogether, which is a real shame.

"I hope ya understand"

And I just mentioned <Greenaway> today as well.

You have my general body proportions and hair length correct, although I'm blonde.

But I'm not as pretty as my <doppelganger> you posted in your forum.

Weird. Just shows the power of surrealism and related phenomena.

William Burroughs in the mid-1960s (I've got an original text, so no edition doubts) anticipated the adventure of Ollie North, Irangate, and the presidencies of Reagan, Bush I and Bush II ...

It was a scrambled cut-up piece in which some kind of 'agent' -- maybe CIA, maybe interplanetary Nova Mob -- is speaking. And he says:

<"What is my name? Olive tree north of the bushes is my name.">

Burroughs also predicts, btw, the current political situation in Ireland, where Coalition talks are taking place with the Green Party:

<"Not the Green Deal -- not the Coca-cola deal with the Venusians -- not the orgasm death -- don't mentions the ovens -- are these the powerful boards syndicates and governments of the earth? -- cowards -- who scared you all into body into time forever?">

"King and Queen are splendid cripples, and no Tower will ever rise or descend. No, flight has been given only to Der Springer."

I don't think that being in a dictionary makes a word 'legal' -- and dictionaries should never be referred to as official authorities. Even lawyers and judges make this mistake sometimes, going "according to Websters or Oxford, blah blah..."

Which is nonsense. A dictionary only records usage, which means that the printed ones are always out of date (like a chess openings book) and the online ones have a slight time-lag too. It takes a while to know whether a new word, or neologism, will catch on.

I've invented words that are in The Internet Dictionary of Neologisms, but didn't become widespread.

'Transectite' features in the 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon. There's even a chess angle -- it's used, I think, about a Lutheran who dresses up as a Catholic Bishop, with flowing purple vestments and a mitre.

In fact, the beginning is deceptive. Contrary to later practice, I used to delete stuff heavily when the forum first opened. I deleted all the early greetings, plus a discussion about drugs that started up without me.

The idea was to keep the place pristine for use as a workshop in the Arno Nickel game. So for a few weeks I deleted anything that wasn't on-message. In my monomaniac idiocy, I even suggested to other forumistas that they should delete all irrelevant posts -- including all earlier pages.

How things change. One day I promoted myself to <freelance nuisance>, handed my old <strategy> shop over to <Open Defence> for safekeeping, and went a little bit wild...