leer en español A couple argues. He or she looks back as he or she leaves the room and says something with a dash of venom. That is the last sting of the dead jellyfish. Two men fight. One knocks the other to the ground and puts the boot in. That is the last sting of the dead jellyfish. Edward James, the surrealist collector who commissioned Salvador Dalí to make the lobster telephone, had four nieces and a nephew, Angus James. When Edward decided to build a castle and his own Garden of Eden in the Las Pozas tropical rainforest in Mexico, Angus left Eton to become his uncle’s amanuensis. The childless Edward told Angus he was his sole heir and would leave him everything. In a surrealist gesture, Edward wrote a will to be read by his lawyer after his death. In it he left cash sums to his four nieces in order of their prettiness: £20,000, £10,000, £5,000 and £2,000. Angus did not receive a penny and the multimillion pound fortune went into a trust to maintain Edward’s country es...