Federico García Lorca poet". He wrote: "The gypsies are a theme. And nothing more. I could just as well be a poet of sewing needles or hydraulic landscapes. Besides, this gypsyism gives me the appearance of an uncultured, ignorant and primitive poet that you know very well I'm not. I don't want to be typecast". Growing estrangement between García Lorca and his closest friends reached its climax when surrealists Dalí and Luis Buñuel collaborated on their 1929 film "Un Chien Andalou" ("An Andalusian Dog"). García Lorca interpreted it, perhaps erroneously, as a vicious attack upon himself. At this time Dalí also met his
Préludes flasques (pour un chien) Barrel"), a title Debussy found so offensive that Satie changed it to "Avec camaraderie" ("With Friendship"). He may already have been dissatisfied with the work as it stood. After publisher E. Demets rejected the score in the first week of August, Satie told his protégé Alexis Roland-Manuel, "I am going to destroy the "Préludes flasques", and begin anew." He followed through on the second part of this statement with the "Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien)", which he completed by August 23 and successfully sold to Demets in September. In his 1948 biography of Satie, Rollo H. Myers cited Roland-Manuel