Neat Salvador Dali reference:

"The story behind the creation of The Persistence of Memory is almost as fascinating and infamous as the painting itself. The painting began with a quaint deserted landscape that was supposed to represent the Catalan coast. The painting lay nude with this image one evening while Dali and his wife Gala entertained some guest with wine and Camembert cheese. Their guest, along with Gala, decided to go to the Cinema while Dali had chosen to stay home because he had a headache. Subsequently Dali fell asleep. Upon waking Dali noted that Gala had not returned, he looked at the clock and felt that time was some how "moving slowly", he next noticed the cheese that was left on the table had melted. What happened next gave birth to one of the most ingenious images ever created. Dali took his observations about the clock and the cheese and came to the conclusion that time was doing the same thing that the cheese was, in a sense, time was melting. As a result Dali painted three melting clocks on his haunting landscape. "

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