“Love first. There will always be time afterward to examine what you love and seek to understand it fully. Before and after such inquiry, it is the intimate resonance that matters: without it, one is almost hopelessly destitute, and no amount of learning can replace it if it is lost along the way.”
I had to do my fair share of research on Brenton and surrealism as a movement as I was reading this book with a frequent interest in French imperialism and colonialism, so I wouldn’t say this was an easy read per se, but it was quite interesting all in all.