There seem to be at least two ways to highlight some of the structures of a given discourse. Both may boil down to the same thing. One is the critical observation of what is around us, precisely while on the alert for things that contravene what we expect. The other way is to suffuse one discourse with a systematically different discourse and watch the places where strain and tensions result.

Samuel R. Delany, “The Rhetoric of Sex/The Discourse of Desire”

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

I offer you the fog of ideas in the poison cup of dreams. Veil the false stars (of those who know) and immerse your body down to the ground. You will seek in vain the last sip, for the cup sinks, like you, with every stroke of the hour, deeper and deeper into the torn mouth of time. Despairingly, you hang your eyes like lights on a walls of fog, where blossoms of the instant they speak glittering prayers.
Yet your glance dissolves in the shadow of their rays.

Anneliese Hager, Surrealist Women: An International Anthology (Ed. Penelope Rosemont), transl. by Miriam Hansen (1998)