In terms of speculative affect, the potential for thinking (and feeling) otherwise, counter to the status quo, is prismatic and expansive. Can this kind of phenomenological experience create, in turn, a form of revolt? This chapter considers the roll of the dice involved in surrealist thought, and surrealism’s quest for social and personal liberty, alongside the idea that thought is ontogenetic. Despite an emphasis on personal experience, the surrealist “marvellous” obliterates hierarchies between object and subject, bringing them into mutual correspondence, while often removing the contextual, habitual, coordinates of everyday routine. Observing the deliberately disobedient objects characteristic of Belgian surrealist René Magritte’s oeuvre, and their subsequent interpretation in French writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Belle Captive (a picto-roman (1975) and film (1983)), the chapter is interested in the ways in which illogic, violence, shock, and incongruity disrupt narrative conclusion.