![]() ![]() There is, in fact, a lot of what today we would call ‘attitude’ in these pages. This attitude, which takes the form of both a lampooning of social conventions and a profound disrespect for the nobility of literature, is perhaps the one thread that links these otherwise disparate writers: from Jonathan Swift’s famous, deadpan prescriptions for overpopulation to Jacques Rigaut’s nonchalant relations of his suicide attempts, from Charles Fourier’s delirious cosmogony to the mind-bending wordplay of Jean-Pierre Brisset and Marcel Duchamp, from Alphonse Allais’s neighbourly pranks and Alberto Savinio’s rude soirée to Alfred Jarry’s pataphysics and Charles Cros’s physics of love. If some of Breton’s choices (particularly those that most explicitly challenge the rules of ‘acceptable’ society) occasionally appear a bit heavy-handed, they nonetheless join with the others in subverting our expectations, upending our preconceived notions of life and art, and often – no small feat – making us laugh. This laughter, however, is always a little green around the edges, for as Breton is quick to point out, black humour is the opposite of joviality, wit, or sarcasm. Rather, it is a partly macabre, partly ironic, often absurd turn of spirit that constitutes the ‘mortal enemy of sentimentality,’ and beyond that a ‘superior revolt of the mind.’ Taking his cue from Freud’s remarks in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious – the Freudian terminology recurs throughout his presentations – he describes this form of humour as ‘the revenge of the pleasure principle (attached to the superego) over the reality principle (attached to the ego) … The hostility of the hypermoral superego toward the ego is thus transferred to the utterly amoral id and gives its destructive tendencies free rein.’ A recipe for psychic unrest, perhaps, but hardly the stuff of mirth. This entry was posted in Interactive Maps, Tangled Depths and tagged explore, guide, Magus Falls, map, Mastery point, screenshot, Tangled Depths by Mikro. Kure the beetles near mushrooms to calm them by releasing spores from nodules. Protect Zildi while she hacks the defense matrix. Use ley energy to power the golem’s shields so Zildi can reach the console room. Join Shrael Backstab on his recon mission. Join Elizia Skysight as she takes the fight to the chak in their nearby hive. Protect the cannon until the Mordrem migration is stopped. Destroy the chak gerent before it reaches the cannon. Keep the resonators running until they draw in a large target. Kill the golem that is preventing Zildi from hacking the mainframe!ĭon’t let the Mordrem break the cannon before it reaches the wall. Power the golems, forcing the chak gerent to emerge. Help Vincere Shieldstep find the scattered members of his team.Ĭollect spore samples and turn them in to Kott’s Assistant. Kill nearby mushrooms to provide the Nyhoch’s beetles with food. Escort Zildi’s Assist-o-Matic as it gathers ley samples. Escort Nokta into the Great Tree as he looks for potential pets. Kill the champion bat so Nokta can return his pets to camp. ![]() Use the camp’s defenses to kill attacking chak. Help Terrill reinforce the camp with scrap metal barricades and cannons. Escort the lore seeker to the underground lake. Region: Magus Falls | Level: 80-80 | Point of Interest
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