# the painting with the melted clocks **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 23, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935 "2000-10-23T02:35:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/21 "2000-10-23T20:53:54Z")
**Cessandra** : > [@](#): > > whoa, are you serious? i would adore you forever! Sure, no problem. Give me a couple of days to find it (it’s part of a huge roll of other posters and wall hangings) and put it in a suitable mailer, and I’ll have it right out. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/22 "2000-10-26T04:55:58Z")
did you get my apology email? i didn’t mean to offend… it was a joke! so sorry! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/23 "2000-10-26T05:25:16Z")
[Persistence of Memory](http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Dali3.html) [Other works by Dalí](http://artchive.com/artchive/D/dali.html) ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/24 "2000-10-26T08:39:38Z")
I have a “Disintegration” T-shirt that I used to wear quite frequently. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Carina42 \* > \*\*Dali factoid: > > When SD wanted to take a little nap (he was, apparently, a prolific napper) he would fall asleep in an upright chair, holding a teaspoon in one hand. As he drifted off, his hand relaxed, dropped the spoon, which on hitting the tile floor, woke him up. This, he claimed, was a sufficiently restful nap. \*\* I heard that he did this because he wanted to explore the misty world between sleep and awake for the purpose of painting inspiration. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/25 "2000-10-26T10:44:33Z")
Snooooopy…aha. I think you’re right, it makes sense. That’s just one of the wierd little things that I’ve remembered for over two decades. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/26 "2000-10-26T12:15:19Z")
I had a dali Nightmare once. It involved all those animals with the long legs from “The Temptation of…” (doh, I always forget that one… arrgh!!) and a little cartoon boy chasing me across burning bridges… sometime I might tell you about the Escher Nightmares… ---
**Author:** ![L714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@L714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/L714)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/27 "2000-10-26T13:10:21Z")
What a great place. I use to spend summers in St. Pete with family and there wasn’t much to do, so we’d get blasted, go to the Dali and sit in front of the Hallucinogenic Toreador for hours. The painting was huge, trippy and had quite a following. Even more entertaining than the painting was looking at the security guards face when he’d eye over the crowd sitting on the floor. I’m sure he just couldn’t understand what we all saw in the damn thing. Colors dude, COLORS! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Voorvie \* > \*\*There’s a museum in St. Petersburg, Florida that is all Dali. He’s my favorite painter, and this place is amazing! He’s got a few pieces that are about 18 feet high and 8 feet across with the most amazing detail. If you’re ever in the area, I highly recommend a visit. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/28 "2000-10-26T14:16:46Z")
Looks like the OP already has her print lined up, but as an aside, a good resource for prints is htto://www.allaboutart.com . You can search by artist, title, style and theme, and order decently priced prints, framed and unframed, in various sizes. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935/29 "2000-10-26T16:24:24Z")
Robot Arm, I laffed when I read your post because I had the _exact_ same reaction “damn, it’s tiny!” I think it was no more than 8"x10" – but the painting is in such detail that is can be blown up to those huge posters. He must have used a brush consisting of just a couple sable hairs… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-painting-with-the-melted-clocks/37935.md?page=1)