Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening the scene. Next to the naked body of the sleeping woman, which levitates above a flat rock that floats above the sea, Dalí depicts two suspended droplets of water and a pomegranate, a Christian symbol of fertility and resurrection. Above the pomegranate flies a bee, an insect that traditionally symbolizes the Virgin. In the upper left of the painting what seems to be a yelloweye rockfish bursts out of the pomegranate, and in turn spews out a tiger that then spews out another tiger and a rifle with a bayonet that is about to sting Gala in the arm. Above
A Marriage Below Zero the first English-language gay-themed novel, and establishes the pattern of gay novels ending in death: especially suicide. Its melodramatic format is closely linked to its author's occupation as a New York drama critic at a time when the primary American theatre form was melodrama. The book met with mixed reviews. An anonymous reviewer in "Bedford's Magazine" described it as ""A saturnalia in which the most monstrous forms of human vice exhibit themselves shamelessly""; while an approving review in the "New York World" described it as ""Absolutely unconventional"". A Marriage Below Zero A Marriage Below Zero is a novel by Alan