Max Ernst died the 1st of August 1914. He resuscitated the 11th of November 1918 as a young man aspiring to become a magician and to find the myth of his time.

In 'Some Data on the Youth of M. E., As Told by Himself' in the View (April 1942); also quoted in Max Ernst and Alchemy (2001) by M. E. Warlick, p. 17