This is not your father's Surrealism. This is high-speed, low-drag, maximum output Surrealism. The old Surrealism is dead, this is the angry revnant of Surrealism sprung from the rotten corpse. With this manifesto we throw all that was Surrealism back in Surrealism's face, and become the New.

dadaook, 2005

Everything Changed... A Surreal Game

Easily played, all you have to do is start with the sentence "Everything changed the day people realised they could live forever." Alternatively, any sentence will do, but it's more fun to put a tiny bit of structure into it--a first sentence that you make youself work off of each time. This is also much more fun if played with a group, or if you are a rather prolific writer and can spend some time with it. The key is to limit yourself to a certain set number of words, in this case 100. You'd be surprised how tough it can be to turn out a full piece of work in exactly 100 words. Now then--go to it!

Everything changed the day people realised they could live forever. The big-brain guys decided that it could be done if we could share our thoughts completely, making all our memories, feelings, everything that made us "US" part of everyone else. The idea was that if we shared our consciousness then if the individual units died the whole would go on, with everything that was that unit still alive in everyone else. When the machines came online the world gave a huge, monstrous silent cry and fell upon itself like a rabid dog, tearing and rending until none remained alive. dadarook, 3-25-05

Everything changed the day people realised they could live forever. There was a problem, though. For one person to live forever, one person's essence had to be destroyed forever. The difficulty arose: who should be destroyed? Should it be the artists? They produce nothing of intrinsic worth. The goverment? They are wasteful and inefficient. The word went around the world like wildfire in the brain, votes were cast, the decision came unanimously. "The Belgians it is," went the cry, and a huge glass dome was errected to cut off Belgium's air supply. We all went to view their last gasp. dadarook, 3-03-05