How could I be so mistaken? I thought and mulled over what to write so much. It's my first article on Blogcritics Magazine, to be published around the start of this fabulous new year. At first, the idea was to write about something helpful to everyone... then I figured, what's the harm in indulging this fabulous new year? Let me speak of my one true love.
I love Salvador Dali, with all my heart and soul. I am currently reading The Secret Life of Salvador Dali and with every page, I fall more and more in love. This is Dali's autobiography wherein he allows the reader to see what a genius he is. Upon hearing that word, Dali instantly comes to mind.
Recently I was in Toronto visiting family and friends - annoying people with my strong desire to talk about my two favorite subjects, Dali and me. Actually, there are many facets to those subjects and like all things they kind of merge into one... There I go trailing off again.
Dali is my hero.
The first time I called the bookstore to see if they had the book the girl on the phone couldn't find it, the second time another person couldn't find it, the third time... I swear it was like a light shone on the book after I spent time checking each and every shelf in the Art section of the bookstore. I heard angelic voices singing and pretty fairy dust was swirling all around the book... it might have even moved a little, I think I saw the binding pop out.
Even the pages are the softest and silkiest pages on any book I have ever held. As a matter of fact, the back of the book has a message from Dover, the publisher, stating that these "pages are opaque, with minimal show-through; it will not discolor or become brittle with age. Pages are bound in signatures, in the method traditionally used for the best books, and will not drop out. ... The binding will not crack or split. This is a permanent book."
Article comments
1 - Katie McNeill
Salvador Dali is a favorite of mine too. I love his painting of the woman with the flowered head. I've only read bits of the book though, I'll have to get around to finishing it.
2 - Elvira Black
Dali was quite a colorful, eccentric character--probably schizophrenic, which proves the old adage that there's a fine line (or sometimes none at all) between genius and madness. Very dashing when he was young, too. Is it true that he was a virgin til he met Gala, the love of his life? (Though of course I wasn't there, so who knows for sure?)
3 - Joy
There is a lot of mystery surrounding what even the two of them did. Eccentric he was. Before Gala, he was in love with the poet Federico Garcia Lorca...
Dali was really into auto eroticism. I'm not sure if he ever had sex with Gala.
4 - Bliffle
My mother-in-law, an independent Parisienne, was an occasional painting companion of Dalis, in Catalan. Gala would steal around the house silently at nigh taking away any paintings because of their value.
5 - Christopher Rose
Dali and compatriot Picasso are both awesome painters.
6 - ss
I just read the first few pages on the free teaser at Amazon.
Sounded like the life of Moe, that must brutal of stooges, as told by Andre Breton.
Which is to say it had some interesting moments, but by two pages in I felt I'd outgrown it.
7 - the universe
Dali is love
8 - Henri Parkes
I think its fair to say that Salvador Dali had an intensely complex and in some ways difficult personality. On Dalí's personality, George Orwell once remarked that 'one ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the two facts, that Dalí is a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being, the one does not invalidate or, in a sense, affect the other.'