We see only a few examples here of contemporary surrealist literature. We have seen surrealist paintings. Most of us know what surrealism is as an art movement. We know some practitioners of the movement, people like Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Giorgio de Cherico, Francis Picabbia, Man Ray, etc. But some instances of information fall away from mainstream awareness. Did you know that the person mainly responsible for shaping the movement was a person named Andre Breton? He did not call the movement “Surrealism.” He called it instead, “Psychic Automatism,” which, as the name suggests refers to automatic thinking and doing. The following is Kinutil’s take on the subject. And it will be a two part essay starting with this and ending on the Sunday Kinutil. Hopefully, you will take the pains to follow and read. We must not burden ourselves with explaining something that is not there in front of us. Rather than extend the explanation we are surely better off to start from an example. Again surely, you will find this rather intriguing and even perhaps confusing. But fear not. By Sunday we hope to relieve you of whatever intrigue and confusion you might feel from reading what follows: Pork, pork and more pork, hopefully to have no pork in the future unless served in front of us in chops or grounds, broiled, boiled or fried as the case may be. But not microwaved as the result is rather strange and for us Filipinos rather doubtful of taste. But pork like the number of empty unwashed glasses on my glass tabletop. Underneath of which, see how little mice scamper untroubled by the concerns of men. And women too, since the both are alleged to be equal though never the same. For if they were the same, then what would be the cause for marrying one to the other? Which might be construed as an argument against same sex marriage, which of course, this is not. It is not Kinutil’s role to define morality. ONLY to observe it. Is same-sex morally acceptable? NO! definitely not. But then, how can any two people be actually the same, same sex, same-same, sex-sex. Every human is only fish in the early embryonic stages. Is the semen male? The egg female? They are neither. When the two intertwine and the human is conceived, when, at what precise stage does the embryo become male or female? There must be a precise time. But it cannot be at the moment of conception. Unless, one thinks the human’s future is conceived in the genes. Which it may well be if one went by a divine plan. But then, that plan would have to apply to every particle in the universe. And since particles are not “sexed,” or perform no sex, the question would have to be: So what is the law of marriage to apply that would apply to universal particles? Can a particle of oxygen marry another particle of oxygen? Of course, it can. Indeed, that is the state of oxygen in nature. The name “O2,” name refers to the fact that oxygen in its “free” molecular state is always married to another atom of oxygen. And as one would have to guess, they would have the same sex. Or would they? But perhaps no two atoms of oxygen are ever exactly the same. As in the case of humans one might say: No two humans are equally the same. And even when they might have the same sex, they would still not be completely the same. Even their own concept of their own sex would differ. And thus, same-sex marriage is never at all possible. Even when a man marries another or a woman marries another, they may not at all be marrying someone of the same sex. They would only be marrying someone of the same category of sex. And categories are things humans apply more to others than to themselves. Thus, yours and my sex are not categories we automatically apply to ourselves. Only societies and religions and even the law are won’t to apply these categories. As when we each fill out our information sheets and come across the blanks for such things as sex and civil status. And we write male or female. Don’t we wonder always: How male? How female? And whether single or married, don’t we think: How married? And why don’t they ever have a blank like: In Love? And another blank for: What would you do for your love? And if you ever loved someone of the same sex, what would all these matter? Not much really. Since all these are really only a dream. Of which, none have any control.
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