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Dismal Sport (The Lugubrious Game), 1929One of the earliest manifestations of the paranoiac-critical method that Dali explored took the form of a chain of irrational objects arising out of a single image."The Lugubrious Game", also known as "Dismal Sport" in which a crowd of images - a grasshopper, a rabbit's head, Dali's own face - spiral out of a truncated body, is one of the first examples of this, and in the early 1930s Dali applied this chain of irrational association both to the legend of William Tell