A little wonder, every day
Dalí’s lecture in a diving suit
portrait of Salvador Dalí on 16 June 1936; useful subject context, but it does not show the diving-suit lecture. Original asset page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Salvador_Dali,_Paris,_LOC_4483943847_(cropped).jpg. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten. The file page identifies the Library of Congress Carl Van Vechten Photographs collection and marks it public domain. No edits.
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At a 1936 lecture in London, Salvador Dalí appeared in a deep-sea diving suit. He meant it to represent a descent into the unconscious, but the helmet kept the audience from hearing him and he nearly suffocated; colleagues opened it with a spanner.
