" The acceptance of suffocation.
Goya, Callot, sadomasochism, sledge-tests: Man is in a mechanic
sledge, travelling at enormous speed, and you see the face of
this person totally distorted by the power of the air against
which the sledge is racing.
Dali in a divers suit in a 1936 London Surrealist exhibition. Dali delivered a lecture
in a diving suit, and he put it on, but when it came to it - he
was beginning to be short of breath, he was in danger of suffocating.
Nobody knew how to open up his head-piece, so he almost died in
the course of giving the lecture in London in 1936"
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