"The dog – borrowed from Ayne Bru’s 16th century painting, Martyrdom of St. Cucufa, and rediscovered in Dali’s 1950 work – is placidly well-anchored to the surface beneath the raised water, while young Dali – looking immodestly female – finds himself levitating, too, just as he might have found himself in a bizarre dream. And no doubt that was precisely how Dali came to paint such..." http://www.dali.com/blog/myself-at-the-age-of-six-reveals-dali-as-both-surrealist-and-nuclear-mystical-painter/