Lobster Telephone

In his book The Secret Life, Dali teased and wondered why when he ordered grilled lobster at a restaurant that the waiter did not bring him a boiled telephone. By making a corellation between these two dissimilar items, he created an idea that fascinated him to no end. He frequently included lobster imagery in his paintings, and linked the crusteceans to sexuality. Dali produced five sculptures of his Lobster Telephone, and a single all-white version, complete with a painted-white lobster.

From his book The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, he writes:

I do not understand why, when I ask for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, I am never served a cooked telephone; I do not understand why champagne is always chilled and why on the other hand telephones, which are habitually so frightfully warm and disagreeably sticky to the touch, are not also put in silver buckets with crushed ice around them.
Telephone frappé, mint-coloured telephone, aphrodisiac telephone, lobster-telephone, telephone sheathed in sable for the boudoirs of sirens with fingernails protected with ermine, Edgar Allen Poe telephones with a dead rat concealed within, Boecklin telephones installed inside a cypress tree (and with an allegory of death in inlayed silver on their backs), telephones on the leash which would walk about, screwed to the back of a living turtle ... telephones ... telephones ... telephones ...