It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way (K.Marx, Letter to F.Engels on the Indian Mutiny)
In nineteen-fourty-eight an interviewer asked André Breton whether he still had any faith in the ‘initiatic tradition’. Breton replied: What role do I ascribe to the initiatory tradition? [A]n increasingly important one. observe [...] that the best things said in France since the liberation (a latent liberation if ever there was one) aim at the long overdue elucidation of the bond that makes the modern conceptions of poetry, revolution and love part of the occult process.
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