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<\/a>Colin W. Sargent, Editor & Publisher<\/p><\/div>\n
When a Portland Magazine<\/em> story is printed, its life is just beginning. It lives forever in the present tense and awakens with the touch of a new reader.<\/span><\/p>\n Digitally, viewers comment on stories they encounter on our replica editions on www.portlandmonthly.com and portlandmagazine.com, as well as stories we post on Twitter and Facebook. In an evolving process across time, a story is transfigured and, in the best cases, deepened, by its reactions and interpretations.<\/span><\/p>\n I think of it as an exquisite corpse.<\/span><\/p>\n The term Exquisite Corpse, or cadavre exquis<\/em>, refers to a literary parlor game invented \u201caround 1924 at the old house at 54 rue de Chateau,\u201d according to Andr\u00e9 Breton in Le Cadavre Exquis: Son Exaltation<\/em>, a 1948 catalog for a show of his work at La Dragonne, Galerie Nina Dausset, in Paris. Here, while sampling \u201ctonic local brews,\u201d he and his circle of early Surrealists (among them Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Man Ray\u2019s darkroom magician, Maine\u2019s Berenice Abbott) would begin with a word, then by turns add a new, surprising word to create an astonishing sentence no one could have imagined alone. Real examples of these first \u201cmonsters in broad daylight\u201d exist, which Breton recalls as having given \u201cthe greatest impression of bewilderment and never-seen\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n Example No. 1: <\/strong>The completely black light \u00a0lays down day and night the powerless suspension to do any good.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Example No. 2:<\/strong> The anaemic young girl got the waxed <\/em><\/span>mannequins turned red.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Example No. 3:<\/strong> The made-up shrimp hardly enlightens some double kisses.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n In this spirit, I\u2019d like to invite our readers to add dimension to the extending conversation of ideas we begin in our print stories at Portland Magazine<\/em>. Across the next four issues, on Facebook, we\u2019ll post a story from the current issue and reward the five best insights (that take us to real places with real times and adventures that offer specific new material to a story in the chain of replies) with free one-year subscriptions, which may be gifted if you already subscribe. Then, at the end of 2015, we\u2019ll have a drawing among the subscription winners for the grand prize, a framed Jon Legere image of Old Orchard Beach. Why Legere? There\u2019s a guy who added to the conversation. Portland Magazine<\/em> stories: We light the fuse, you provide the bang.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 2015 When a Portland Magazine story is printed, its life is just beginning. It lives forever in the present tense and awakens with the touch of a new reader. Digitally, viewers comment on stories they encounter on our replica editions on www.portlandmonthly.com and portlandmagazine.com, as well as stories we post on Twitter and Facebook. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-10910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-september-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10964,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions\/10964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}