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8th October 1935, in the sitting room of 54 rue du Chateau.
slavador dali: (with thermometer in mouth) i was fascinated... (checking temperature) ... by Hitler's soft fleshy back. whenever i started to paint the leather strap that crossed from his belt to his shoulder the softness of that Hitler flesh packed under his military tunic transported me into a sustaining and Wagnerian ecstasy that set my heart pounding, an extremely rare state of excitement that i did not even experience during the act of love.
andre breton: ... Hilter would very probably appreciate the solitude, the weakness... the megalomania, Wagnerism and Hieronymus-Boschism of the paintings you are doing now.
dali: (throwing down thermometer and beginning a slow striptease) i see Hitler as a masochist obsessed with the idee fixe of starting a war and losing it in heroic style. in a word, he was preparing for one of those actes gratuits which are highly approved of by our group... and if Hitler were ever to conquer europe, he would do away with hysterics of my kind, as has already happened in germany, where they were treated as degenerates... (fully naked now, and preaching triumphantly) in my opinion, Hitler has four testicles and six fourskins!
breton: (shouting) are you going to keep getting on our nevres much longer with your Hitler!!
dali: ...if i dream tonight that you and i are making love, i shall paint our best positions in the greatest detail first thing in the morning.
(general laughter)
breton: (teeth clenched on pipe) i wouldn't advise it, my friend.
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