The worse thing about not knowing where you are is that you fill so losted

Friday is always Free Friday at the museum, and tonight I took some notes on a couple items from the new show, which features odds and ends from the collection of Julien Levy, lover of surrealism.

From a Krazy Kat comic strip clipped from an unidentified newspaper:

[Krazy:] S’FUNNA, ALL AT A SUDDIN, I DUN’T SIM TO KNOW WHERE I’M AT—

I’M SOMEPLACE THAT’S NO PLACE TO ME—IT’S EEDA SOME WHERE ANY WHERE, OR NO WHERE—BUT WHERE?

NOT ONLY DO I DUN’T KNOW WHERE IT IS—BUT ALSO I DUN’T KNOW WHERE IT AIN’T.

THE WORSE THING ABOUT NOT KNOWING WHERE YOU ARE IS THAT YOU FILL SO LOSTED

AND Y’DUN’T IVVIN KNOW WHERE Y’IS LOSTED AT—

IT’S SO KINFUSING TO BE LOSTED AT A STRANGE PLACE

I’LL WRITE TO IGNATZ AND TELL HIM—IT’LL BE SUCH A SIPPRISE TO HIM

Another Krazy Kat:

[Krazy:]SH—H— A L’IL “KAMILLION” IS RESTING INSIDE FROM TOO MUCH “COLOR”—DUN’T MAKE NO NOISE

[Ignatz:] WELL, STEP OUTSIDE, AND I’LL SOKK YOU AS SILENTLY AS POSSIBLE

[Offissa Pupp:] AH—HAH— SOMEBODY IS GOING TO TAKE SILENT TRIP TO THE CLINK

From a “List of Proposed Titles for the ‘Dream of Venus’ Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York,” Salvador Dalí and Julien Levy. I use italics for words in handwritten script; the rest is typwritten; strikethroughs original:

What is at the Bottom of Your Mind?
Dali’s Depth of the Mind
Dali’s Dream Dive
20^M LEGS UNDER THE SEA
DALI’S BOTTOMS OF THE SEA
DALI TRANCE FORMS
DALI’S SEA BOTTOMS
SEA NYMPHS AND MANIACS
SEA BOTTOMS UP
DALI’S KALA PANI
DALI’S FISH FLESH AND FOWL
LIQUID LADIES
DALI’S WET DREAM
NUDE DRENCH
DALI'S VISIBLE WOMEN
BEAUTIES OF DISORDER
SWIMMIN WOMEN
EROS IS EROS
DALI’S NUDE AQUARIUM
NO NUDES ARE GOOD NUDES
DALI’S SEXCESS
PSYCHANATOMY
SEE! SEA! SI! DALI!
DALINIAN DEARIES
THE FAIR’S SEX

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