Luis Buñuel Mother" series, is their grandson. After this apprenticeship, Buñuel shot and directed a 16-minute short, "Un Chien Andalou", with Salvador Dalí. The film, financed by Buñuel's mother, consists of a series of startling images of a Freudian nature, starting with a woman's eyeball being sliced open with a razor blade. "Un Chien Andalou" was enthusiastically received by the burgeoning French surrealist movement of the time and continues to be shown regularly in film societies to this day. The script was written in six days at Dalí's home in Cadaqués. In a letter to a friend written in February 1929, Buñuel
Préludes flasques (pour un chien) wrote a second set of pieces on the same theme, the "Veritables Preludes flasques (pour un chien)" (1912), which proved a breakthrough in Satie's career and creative development. The original "Préludes flasques" were presumed lost for decades and would not see print until 1967. Satie was never a pet-owner, but his fondness for dogs is well known. Stray mongrels he occasionally fed and sheltered were the only visitors he allowed inside his one-room Arcueil apartment during the 27 years he lived there. And among the random jottings in his composition notebooks can be found Blaise Pascal's famous quote, "The more