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"Hello?...Yes, this is Lobster."
Apparently lobsters and telephones both had very sexual connotations to Salvador Dali, which is slightly upsetting...I’m sure most of all to his wife. The object is designed so that the mouthpiece is where the lobster’s genitals would be, under the tail. This doesn’t disturb me that much because I’ve never seen a lobster’s hoo-ha, and it probably looks a lot like the rest of the lobster, and in any case this one is made of plastic. But it is still a super weird gesture.
The King of the Surreal also wrote in his autobiography (a bizarre book, as you might imagine), “I do not understand why, when I ask for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, I am never served a cooked telephone.” Oookay Salvador, if you say so.
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Lobster Telephone (also known as Aphrodisiac Telephone) is a Surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 for the English poet Edward James (1907–1984), a leading collector of surrealist art. In his 1942 book The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dalí wrote teasingly of his demand to know why, when he asked for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, he was never presented with a boiled telephone.
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