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Dali’s Lobster Telephone

Fig 3. Lobster Telephone, Salvador Dalí, 1936, © Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation/DACS, London 2016. Compare with the abject image in the chorus of Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral (1935): ‘I have tasted | The living lobster, the crab, the oyster, the whelk and the prawn.’ Photo credit: © Tate, London [2016] .