Surrealism - Dali / Max Ernst

Dalí was a genius. Mad as a box of melting clocks and fried eggs, but a genius nevertheless

Been a hero of mine all my life Bert.

Nobby Cheese wrote:Been a hero of mine all my life Bert.

did you see the film little ashes? if so, what did you think?

Haven't caught up with it yet Sooter....it's only just over a year old isn't it?
I fully intend to watch it very soon. Spain in the 20's/30's fascinates me.

same here mate. sort of got interested in it through george orwell. a fascinating time to be alive, imo.

little ashes is well worth a look.

I'm in Spain at the moment and I drive the wife mad because I want to keep driving far inland to check out the remnants of 100 year old farm houses!

Nobby Cheese wrote:I'm in Spain at the moment and I drive the wife mad because I want to keep driving far inland to check out the remnants of 100 year old farm houses!

poor woman. patience of a saint.

my wife can sympathise with her though. i do the same sort of thing.

Nobby Cheese wrote:Haven't caught up with it yet Sooter....it's only just over a year old isn't it?
I fully intend to watch it very soon. Spain in the 20's/30's fascinates me.

30s Spain still has the capacity to make me weep. And swear as well for that matter

Some truly horrendous acts of inhumanity took place during the civil war.

yes, but in the grand scheme of things including the multitude of horrendous things happening today, it was but a drop in the med

Nobby Cheese wrote:Some truly horrendous acts of inhumanity took place during the civil war.

Some of which weren't by Spain. Fucking Eden, the cunt. (Only I could take umbrage at a foreign secretary from 75 years ago)

Abdul Kowalski wrote:yes, but in the grand scheme of things including the multitude of horrendous things happening today, it was but a drop in the med

I disagree. The impact was sen in Spain for over forty years after the Civil War and after Franco died. Look up the Blue Division - they essentially were the core and backbone of the higher reaches of the Spanish armed forces until they all died off. It was the first real face off of Fascism and Socialism (and indeed Communism). It was the only country in Europe as far as I am aware that actually had sizeable areas that abolished money. Land reform was needed, the Church and State were divorced by the Frente Popular, feudalism was taking on, there were movements for internal secession and autonomy of Catalonia, the Basque region, Galicia, Asturias - everything that happened in the Spanish Civil War happened or is happening somewhere else in Europe ever since. Big for aerial combat, sea combat, land combat, guerilla warfare, propaganda, it goes on and on.

All history is cyclical. A lot of it that we see now appeared in Spain in '36-'39

Yeah.....what Bert says!


Bert, I'm in my 62nd year and I can categorically state that you are the most verbose and intelligent human being I've ever come across.
Your IQ must be immense.
A pleasure reading your stuff mate.

Not quite a fraud, Tone, but the Spanish Civil War is my chosen field. Yes, my work was over two decades ago, but it is the one conflict that is the proverbial "layers of an onion".

I could make an argument for the Spanish Civil War having started in 1934 as well with the Asturian miners' strike...

Between the two World Wars, Barcelona was probably Europe's most violent city on consensus, and when you review it all, by some distance as well.

He did love the "telephones"

Guest wrote:He did love the "telephones"

Anyone know what it was that Dalí called "telephones"?

Lobsters?
With big cocks.

Just to exemplify (I put some yards in on Google Images, I must say) but obviously it was a women thing with him...

Best example ever of a dictaphone.