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It includes the first appearance of what is perhaps his most enduring image: the 'soft watch'.
Surprisingly, Dalí said that his soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun. The painter insisted on this explanation in his reply letter to Prigogine, who took it as Dalí's reaction to Einstein's coldly mathematical theory.
The death of Salvador Dali evokes the image of his most famous painting, 'Persistence of Memory.'
