It's a mad, mad, mad world!

So, I like the concept of madness and insanity from the manifesto, and it got me thinking about how the concept of collage is a kind of madness too. Think of a normal piece of fiction as "sane" in that it is tied together, normalized and is the author's entire idea (input and revision from editors notwithstanding). Then look at the collage fictions, especially the more visual works that have done as exercises for the past few weeks.

I know when I see the insane depicted in film or comics, the writing on their walls is disjointed and unnerving, and it's the same kind of look we attempt to create as we try to place our readers in an uncomfortable and uncanny sense of the world. Of course, i'm talking about popular culture here in terms of madness, and I am not trying to say that we as writers are mad. (Though we may be, as the world of the literary has shit pay)

But isn't the collage going against the sense of "logic"? The collage doesn't have to be surreal in terms of Breton, but it almost seems illogical in terms of normal fiction; taking pieces from other works to tell our story, and not the original author, or really some times not even to tell a story at all.

Still, it sure is fun to be crazy.