The rebirth of surrealism?

Okay... I didn't have the theological backup I said I did. I think Orcinus has a pretty good one, you could check that.

I just wanted to talk about some spiced ham. You know, the Hormel product, popular in Hawaii?

Every day I get loads of junk in my yahoo bulk mailbox. I almost never check it... but I just recently did. As everyone knows, there's a great deal of material encouraging one to purchase, er, V.I. aghhhura. or C.ialis or whatever. But I was somewhat unprepared for some of the contents of these emails. Apparently much of this content is done to fool junk filters, but in a ny case it's rather fascinating. Here's a snippet from an email I recently received:

"Then the third rat gets up and says, "Later guys, I'm off home to harass the cat."
Two neighbors had been fighting each other for nigh on four decades. Bob buys a Great Dane and teaches it to use the bathroom in Bill's yard. For one whole year Bill ignores the dog.
Automatically Vera pressed the trigger"

And:

"If you do not wish to be protomagnesium :-)
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies....
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune."

And:

"Buenos noches!
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"

And:

"If you do not wish to be fuliginosity ;-)
I feel bad that I don't feel worse....
Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains."

And:

"Hej.
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls....
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If you do not wish to be choanosome ;)
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist....
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]"

And that's just the weiner pills. It doesn't take into account all the pron links written by such luminaries as Neolithic C. Improves, Baghdad O. Sufficient, and Whale F. Insinuates.

The question is not "what does all this mean?" because it doesn't mean anything, it's word salad. The question is, why would this word salad be so fasinating, so genuinely bizarre? The fact is that, to me, the juxtoposition of such disparate elements is surreal in the classic sense, but it is a surrealism born not of dreams and free association but of software, of algorithms. It shows me that a non-human agent can create something compelling despite being so far from passing the Turing test that using the word intelligence to describe it is absurd.