Word: daly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aged five, Dali pushed a boy smaller than himself off a railingless bridge. "He landed on some rocks 15 feet below. I ran home to announce the news." That same year Dali fell in love with a wounded bat. Says he: "I picked up the bat, crawling with ants . . . but instead of kissing it, I gave it such a vigorous bite with my jaws that I almost split...
...adolescent Dali made plans to be "uninterruptedly in love." These plans were "organized with a total bad faith and a refined Jesuitical spirit. ... I always chose girls whom it was doubtful or impossible that I should ever see again." Dali was still a virgin...
...feeling of jealousy toward myself . . . knocked [my admirer] down and trampled on her with all my might." In the same year, suffering from uncontrollable fits of laughter and bordering on insanity, he met his future wife Gala (then wife of Surrealist Poet Paul Eluard). To impress the Eluards, Dali decided to get himself up "very elaborately." He tore his best silk shirt to shreds, shaved his armpits so deep that they bled, transferred blood to other parts of his body, turning his bathing trunks inside out, placed an enormous red geranium behind one ear, a pearl necklace round his neck...
...Paris, Dali found the sight of "a legless blind man sitting in his little cart," tapping the sidewalk "with a boundless self-assurance," so repugnant that he "went up to the blind man and . . . gave him a kick that sent him scooting all the way across the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet...
...fetishistic crutches featured in so many Dali paintings may be traced to a crutch which he found in the attic of a tower from which he had planned to push a girl. Says Dali: "It was the first time in my life that I saw a crutch. . . . The superb crutch! Already it appeared to me as the object possessing the height of authority and solemnity. [It] communicated to me an assurance, an arrogance even, which I had never been capable of until then...