The Anonymous Voice

The anonymous voice, who calls Diodorus on the payphone, serves as a symbol for the proverbial muse. In the same way that the caller searches out the narrator to recruit him for the Clandestine Surrealist Group, the muse finds artists to articulate creative ideas. The author enacts this moment in the narrative to assert that artists who are willing to experiment with inspiration, the call of the muse, without questioning it, can create art that subverts cultural norms and fosters revolution.

The Rug

The distortion of the rug, during Rigoberto’s poetry recitation, symbolizes the transformative power of art. While the rug is a physical object, that exists with defined dimension, it is mutable once the narrator looks at it from a different perspective. Similarly, art can shift societal norms and distort reality.

André Breton

The author utilizes André Breton as a symbol for...