Mike Essig
1 min readAug 12, 2017

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Surrealism, I think, is about experiencing more than interpreting. Sometimes images are more important than understanding, form becomes content, the poem not hermeneutic, but direct, beyond its words, like enlightenment in Zen. Just what that satori “is” is a personal matter for the reader. It isn’t necessary to understand eveything. Some things just are. Susan Sontag’s essay “Against Interpretation” makes a brave attempt at explaining this. :)

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Mike Essig
Mike Essig

Written by Mike Essig

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.

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