AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

SD TUCKER is an FT regular, whose books are Paranormal Merseyside, Terror of the Tokoloshe and (forthcoming) The Hidden-Folk. Currently working on a book about Britain’s maddest eccentrics, he would doubtless make a very substantial ghost himself.

NOTES

1 Will Self, How the Dead Live, 2000, Bloomsbury, p.179 2 The article in question is most easily accessed in André Breton, Anthology of Black Humour, 2009, Telegram, pp383-386 (translated by Breton’s biographer, Mark Polizzotti). All quotations from Dalí’s essay are taken from here. 3 Not to be confused with a controversial 1933 painting of that exact same name showing a half-naked cannibalistic Lenin supporting his giant elongated sausage-buttock in a handy crutch. The Minotaure version of The Enigma is now lost, but was part of a series of very similar paintings by Dalí – The Spectre and the Ghost being one particularly comparable example that is easily available to view online. 4 Ian Gibson, The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí, Faber & Faber, 1998, p74 5 Gibson, 1998, pp317-319; Katharine Conley, Surrealist Ghostliness, 2013, University of Nebraska Press, pp82-84 6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallic_ architecture (citing Thomas Mical, Surrealism and Architecture, 2005, Taylor & Francis, p.200) 7 Gibson, 1998, p.10 8 Dalí cited in Breton, 2009, p.380 9 Nadia Choucha, Surrealism and the Occult, 2010, Mandrake of Oxford, p60 10 Lévi cited in Choucha, 2010, p.68 11 Gibson, 1998, p.320 12 All info/quotes re: Dalí, Hitler, edible nurse-maids and Breton compiled from Gibson, 1998, p322; Mark Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, 2009, Black Widow Press, pp351355; Robert Descharnes & Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1999, Taschen, p104 13 Think about that word in its literal pictorial sense, too... 14 http://en.wikipdia/org/wiki/Mae_West 15 Michael Robinson, Surrealism, 2005, Flame Tree Publishing, pp332-335.