“Beautiful like the accidental encounter on a dissection table of a sewing machine and an umbrella". Lautreamont in his Chants de Maldoror imagined beauty as the product of incongruous juxtapositions. The dissection table represents the common ground, the neutral, well-lighted surface on which the sewing machine and umbrella are exposed. A shadowless, arbitrary order capable of accomodating startlingly disparate objects.