Hello ! Eggs ?

The Sublime Moment, 1938
Salvador Dalí

Oil on canvas
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

[...] In this precisely detailed, disquieting still life a damaged telephone receiver is suspended above a plate with two fried eggs in the midst of a barren coastal landscape reminiscent of the view from Dali’s house in Port Lligat. Everything is caught in a state of suspension, barely held up by thin supporting sticks or branches. The telephone receiver seems to exude a magical power - as if the rim of the plate were being sucked up towards it, only to melt into a large drop that touches the razor blade held in place below, which in turn seems ready to slice into the yolk of the egg on the right in the very next moment (perhaps an allusion to the forced partition of Czechoslovakia). [...]

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Le Moment Sublime (grand cendrier), 1974
Salvador Dali

The Sublime Moment (Large Ashtray), which shows a phone receiver propped on a cane, alludes to the political situation in Europe before World War II. Here.