“The Crayfish of Paracelsus has to be served along with the heads or torsos of small hot-blooded martyrs, as a gesture of homage to Gilles de Rais (Giles of Retz) whose most delightful ejaculations were brought about by gazing at the dying faces of his smooth-cheeked and innocent beheaded little ones, the virginal purity of whom could only have been compared to that of his former comrade-at-arms, the Maid of Orléans.” Excerpt from Les Diners de Gala (Gala’s Dinners), 1973, by Salvador Dalí.