Anyone who would discern surrealistic origins within everyday life, as presented in this book, would do it injustice. Because the other face of everyday life is the nightmare, one only needs to step out of the usual path of thoughts and emotions as they are accustomed to facing them, or to follow it until the end. Then everyday life is peeled away and it is not the transition from reality to dream that is revealed [...] but an unfathomable face as it materializes in everyday thoughts and relationships, constantly present, unaffected and undisturbed by the conflicts it causes in its carriers and executors...