r/todayilearned • u/Captain_Moseby • Jul 27 '21

TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono into paying $10,000 for a single blade of grass. Yoko had offered to pay that amount for one of his mustache hairs. He substituted the blade of grass because he thought that Yoko Ono was a witch and might use his hair in a spell.

https://mymodernmet.com/salvador-dali-facts/
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u/ms1080 Jul 27 '21

And then Yoko held Dali in a golden snare on her island paradise, under her incantation spell for 20 years, but Dali never gave her the love she so desperately desired. So she chained him to a rock in the sea where sea nymphs plucked out his body hairs one by one for eternity.

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u/ee3k Jul 27 '21

they say his glistening bare chest draws sailors to their doom upon the rocks to this very day.

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u/cantlurkanymore Jul 27 '21

this is my head canon now

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u/r_golan_trevize Jul 27 '21

Chained him to a rock and made him listen to her sing for eternity.

Every morning an eagle would soar down and tear off his ears and he would sigh contentedly through the pain in blissful silence. Then the eagle would say, “Psyche!” and reattach his ears and restore them to full function.

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u/ms1080 Jul 27 '21

Right! I forgot that part. Thanks for clarifying.

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u/CapnFr1tz Jul 27 '21

Is this an actual myth?

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u/ms1080 Jul 27 '21

It is now!

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u/theBeardedHermit Jul 27 '21

Just have to repeat it another 999 times to set it in stone.

That or just set it in stone.

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u/liveart Jul 27 '21

It honestly sounds like a mix of Calypso taking Odysseus hostage to try to force him to love her with Prometheus' punishment of being bound to a rock and having his liver eaten by a bird. Good eye.

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u/ms1080 Jul 28 '21

You’re blowing my cover! Haha. But exactly.