"I shall not fail to include among these precepts a new discovery an aid to reflection, which although it seems a small thing and almost laughable, nevertheless is very useful in stimulating the mind to various discoveries. This is: look at walls splashed with a number of stains or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene, you can see there resemblences to a number of landscapes, adorned in various ways with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, great plains, valleys and hills. Moreover, you can see various battles and rapid actions of figures, strange expressions on faces, costumes and an infinite number of things, which you can reduce to good, integrated form. This happens thus on walls and varicoloured stones, as in the sound of bells in who's pealing you can find every name and word you can imagine."

(Dali was so late to the party, he didn't even realise it had already happened! Well, alright, he went a bit farther by seeing two things in the wall at once and painting both of them, well, actually he'd see things in the things he saw and paint those. Was he even seeing anything? Are you? Oh who the hell knows anyway.)

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