usa state name charade --01

Dali was known to do almost anything for money. He appeared in commercials for Lanvin chocolates, which featured the artist exclaiming his love for the treat before biting into it, which caused his eyes to cross and his mustache to curl.

Do you know the famous NAME TRANSPOSAL (anagram) for him?

ARTistic warming up. Surrealism (1929-....)  

• Breton -Dalí: A long relationship....

André Breton had expelled Dalí from the Surrealist movement in 1934 (Dali was introduced to America by art dealer Julian Levy in 1934. The exhibition in New York of Dali's works, including Persistence of Memory, created an immediate sensation.)

Dubbed “Avida Dollars” by A. Breton in 1939 the anagram translates phonetically  Salvador Dali's name. .. It marked, with little subtlety, Breton's disapproval of Dalí's commercial success and  the increasing commercialization of Dali's work, and the perception that Dali sought self-aggrandizement through fame and fortune. Some surrealists henceforth spoke of Dali in the past tense, as if he were dead.

 “Avida Dollars” translates to “eager for dollars." By some accounts, still Pretty apt. 

Akin to this example,

Every English USA state name can be transposed into some other word or name ….

For a word to defy transposition would be an act of treason, so to speak.


Let’s get started with nine of them

              USA STATES and their Capitals

1.-  Schools which made Law a required course do very well.

A1: DELAWARE  ……….. Dover

Schools which ma__de Law a re__quired course do ver_y well.

Do the rest... in 5 minutes

2.-  Don’t panic, Ali, for Niagara Falls enhances the sacrament of matrimony.

  

3.- Use an insectifuge or giant insects will destroy that lantana field.

4.-  In Diana’s shop I saw thin Diana polishing furniture.

5.- Can Eva dance outside with cars on city streets?

6.- Oh, I only saw Mexico, Lum, bus was late!

7.- The main Evil of  the Augustan age was imperialism.

8.- You must go west, Virginia, said Charles tonight.

9.- As a virgin I allure the rich Mondays and all other days.

• Source:
• Word Recreations: Games and Diversions from Word Ways. by Ross Eckler. Dover Publications, 1979