His whole life long the surrealistic painter Dali is obsessed to come to terms with three key moments of his childhood in Spain: 1. the fear that in his parents eyes he is only a rebirth of the dead first son, 2. The shocking effect that the pictures of venereal diseases discovered in his father's library have had on him and 3. the betrayal of his father, whom he found in bed with his mother's sister. His "floating clocks gain worldwide famousness and become a symbol for a reality loosing control. | Milestones of Art: Salvador Dali: The Paranoia-Method by Willi Bloess, Paperback | Indigo Chapters