Melting Watches & Diving Bells
Once at a lecture in London titled “Paranoia, the Pre-Raphaelites, Harpo Marx, and Phantoms,” Salvador
Dali made a magni ficent entrance, as usual. Holding two white Russian wolfhounds on a lest in one hand and a billiard cue in the other, he was dressed in an old-fashioned diving suit and helmet topped with a Mercedes radiator cap. He tried to speak but soon realized that, without a supply of oxygen to the helmet, he was unable to breathe. The audience blithely watched him struggle for air, thinking it was a part of the act, but finally two friends realized something was amiss. They frantically attempted to hammer off the bolts on the helmet. Finally a stage hand arrived with a wrench and released the nearly suffocated Dali.
You know Dali is a weird guy. That’s his whole thing – being odd. At least when you hung around him, things were probably never dull.
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