Dreams... and Nadja, too.

The Surrealist Manifesto, though I resisted due to the title “Manifesto”, actually intrigued me, particularly in the way it talked about the integration of dreams and how they influenced writing and how they can be interpreted. I think at one point it even said that dreams could even be taken to mean more than reality or something of the sort? I could have misinterpreted that or read it wrong, I’m not sure, but all of the talk of dreams was fun for me to read because I have always been fascinated by dreams and what they mean and blah, blah, blah. On page 12, about half of the way down, it says, “Why should I not expect from the sign of the dream more than I expect from a degree of consciousness which is daily more acute?” It all just really made me think, I suppose.

Like Jess, I started to read Nadja like something from the Nonfiction class. And then I would take a step back and remind myself. And then I would get reading again, and the same thing would happen. The beginning for me was a little messy and all over the place, until we actually met Nadja and then looking back I understood the beginning more and I appreciated the set up in a different way. At first just trying to wade through all of these thoughts and concepts was a little like, “huh?” for me, but once it was over and I stopped to think about it and process it, it was more interesting, and then applying it to his interactions with Nadja made it a little easier to comprehend.