I had to tack on this bit of -- well, surreal -- interaction between Gil, who happens to meet, in a cafe, Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel, Man Ray:
Gil
It sounds so crazy when I say it and you'll think I'm drunk but I've got to tell someone I'm from a different time - a whole other era - the future - and I pass from the two thousandth millennium to here - a car picks me up - I slide through time.
Man Ray
Exactly correct - you inhabit two worlds - so far I see nothing strange.
Gil
Look, you're sur-realists - but I'm a normal guy - See, in one life I'm engaged to marry a woman I love - at least I think I love her. Christ, I'm supposed to love her if I'm marrying her.
Dali
Love - the word love - love - the word love - same as the word rhinoceros - the rhinoceros makes love by mounting the female - but is there difference in beauty between two rhinoceroses?
Man Ray
But there is nothing more sur-real than the human heart.
Dali
Past is also present.
Gil
In a dream - which is fine for you because you guys dabble in dreams.
Man Ray
There is another woman?
Gil
Adriana is her name. And I felt drawn to her - but it wouldn't matter - men much greater than me, profound artists - she's drawn to geniuses - and they to her.
Dali
I see you with Christ - he is smiling while you are crucified on the heavy wooden cross of self-doubt.
Gil
Of course my biggest problem is reality.
Bunuel
Reality is nothing more than a dream - we all exist in the dream of a dog.
Gil
I was born in the wrong time.
Dali
Time is all the mind. Time melts - the watches melt - the hands of the clock melt.
Man Ray
A man in love with a woman from a different era. I see a photograph.
Bunuel
I see a movie.
Gil
I see an insurmountable problem.
Dali
I see - a rhinoceros.