

As Voltaire disappears, so do the ideas he represented... and the world's slave market expands...
There is an ancient Sufi parable about coffee: "He who tastes, knows; he who tastes not, knows not."
When Dalí was five years old, he saw an insect that had been eaten by ants and of which nothing remained except the shell. The swarming ants in Dalí's pictures and sculptures are references to death and decay, and are reminders of human mortality and impermanence. They are also said to represent overwhelming sexual desire.
