Never have I thought twice about food and talking goes together. I thought when your eating it is not polite to let the whole world know what’s going on inside of your mouth that’s being chewed up. However, food can be a sense of communication, by using food as a means of getting to know someone. For example going on a first date seems redundant at sometimes because the other partner knows that they are going to go somewhere through out the date to eat. Food is another means of breaking the ice as well. This is where I found it quite amusing when I stumbled upon Dalí’s Cybernetic Lobster Telephone, (1975) http://www.lockportstreetgallery.com/Dalis/Imagination/ioclt-A.jpg.
Just from the looks of it the telephone looks very delicious, I don’t know about you but it think I would eat my telephone! Its funny how you can relate food to great conversation because if it is something that you eating that is good it would bring happiness to you conversation. Ironically in some cultures they fond it a bit sexual to watch someone put food into their mouth and for something like a lobster where it is very delicate in touch and in taste.
On the other hand, lobster is very expensive, so I guess Dalí is trying to say that “time is money, money is time” that if your going to talk to me your going to be taking my time so this time that you taking must be worth my time and money. This is because personally I don’t enjoy talking on the phone only because I feel that it is too personal. However if the person is as elegant or lets to say “expensive” then ill give the phone a chance only because the what is on the other end may seem interesting and maybe tasteful.
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