There is an extremely moving piece in Libération about the
beginnings of Surrealism in the midst of the First World War.
Many of the figures of the later movement were drafted - as medical
attendants, transporting the horribly wounded and dying -
while in their late teens. They new each other from Medical School.
And if Surrealism today is part of the history of Literature,
it was first and foremost the work of intelligent young men horrifed
by the carnage around them. Freud and the subconscious would be
the entry to modernity, correct appreciation of the mind, and the possibility
of adequate pain killers...Opium could not be dosed, because it was the
natural product, but morphine, a derivative, could.
https://next.liberation.fr/culture/2018/11/10/grande-guerre-au-milieu-des-rales-les-premiers-cris-des-surrealistes_1691085
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