flotsam & jetsam

“Admittedly Dali’s chosen persona - part comic-opera barber, part mad muezzin on his phallic tower crying out a hymn of undigested gobbets of psychoanalysis and self-confession (just the kind of thing to upset those bowler-hatted library customs clerks), part genius with all its even greater embarrassments - is not one that can be fitted into any handy category. Most people, even intelligent ones, are not notably inventive, and the effort of devising a wholly new category, and one at that to be occupied by only one tenant, demoralizes them even before they have started.”