of how reality really functioned. It was a literary work that accepted its own sensitivity to random events acting as a precursor to mathematical realisations. The Surrealists believed that we are so determined to see the patterned order in things that we blind ourselves to the chaotic reality. Chaos Theory maintains that the Universe can be little more than a vast and complex game of chance -- something the Surrealists were able to express through art decades before mathematics was technologically able to catch up with them. Half a century on, we now see the loop being completed, as designers and architects reappropriate non-linearity to make it an artistic axiom once more.