Choice and the Real: I read the manifesto upside down.

The first thing which I feel must be addressed, is this dear letter. This question of whether or not it is enough for something to be chosen as a different object... To that I can only reply that "chosen" art seems to have far less of a ring to it, save that of the hammer which I wish it would turn back on itself with such fervor.

That being said, it is strange... this relationship of the Surreal, and the chosen. On the one hand, the Surrealist must choose to show us something outside of reality, or at least, outside of the box in which we assume reality is so nicely placed. As this manifesto seems to say of the kind of writing it finds less than stellar... "I refuse to go into the room". Such, if the writer is to be believed, is a necessity of the mind which finds banal repititons of the everyday detail of language to be sickening, and even immoral in art.
Here we seem to find a(nother?) critic of the novel... one who finds it far too gritty, detail oriented, and raw... even in its own invention.

On the other hand, it would seem that choice is immediately subjugated in the next few sentences. His concern fro Freud, and his dream interpretations, seems to imply that a world in which we have no (conscious) choice in, but is distinct from this imagined "real", is far more important to us than the original real... precisely because it juxtaposes, and possibly frames.

I have a question, also, on the basis of the following quotation:
"It seems that every act is it's own justification, at least for the person capable of committing it, that it is endowed with a radiant power which the slightest gloss is sure to diminish."

My question, if I might deign to ask one, is this.... how much of Surrealism is the Mother... Brother... Child, of this hypermediation we now bear witness to? How much the enemy? For on the one hand, it seems that the surrealist tendency to rely on the Choice of the matter is what is so very much a cause of this media malady... but at the same time he seems to predict the symptom... the seeming deadness of something once it has been copypasta-d. Does my question even matter? Especially in this class, where it seems that so much of what we do is to ignore the presumption of this deadness, and in so doing... find new life.