ezer9 - The Monday Morning Memo

Throughout his life, surrealist painter Salvador Dali

was energized by his ezer kenegdo, Gala,

the subject of many of his greatest works.

When Gala passed away in 1982,

Dali stopped painting.

Seven years later

he died.

Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which
at Twenty Meters becomes a Portrait of Abraham Lincoln
(1976), by Salvador Dali.

“I was bribed into loving John Donne. My parents pinned poetry on the bathroom wall next to the sink where my siblings and I brushed our teeth and paid us for each poem we memorized. I was a mercenary child, with expensive taste in small plastic dog figurines; the exchange rate was roughly four poems per dog, and so I learned a great deal of Donne. I learned, not realizing it at the time, some of the finest love poetry ever written in the English language.

I did not wholly understand the poems, but I understood that I loved them, for the way their vividness took root. And I know now that the poetry you learn as a child comes back to you as an adult. Two and a half decades later, I’m a fellow of All Souls College in Oxford, and I think that much of what attracted me to Donne was his insistence on our strangeness.”

- Katherine Rundell, Sept 10, 2022

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