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Notes from The Secret Life of Salvador Dali...
...When Dali was very young his mother continually asked him: "Sweetheart, what do you wish? Sweetheart, what do you want?" Among the things young Salvador wanted and got were a king's ermine cape, a gold scepter and a crown. Dressed in these, young Dali would stare at himself in the mirror. Says he: "Then I pushed my sexual parts back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered...
...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...