The working of Dali’s soft clock

Despite its relentlessness, there is a certain thing that it cannot do away with.

Salvador Dali Museum at St. Petersburg, a treasure in Florida. Top left: self-portrait as a young man in 1921; top right: the artist at an older age; bottom left: the disintegration of the persistence of memory; bottom right: enchanted beach with three fluid graces (supposedly birth, life, and death).