The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse

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When first we meet George Garvey he is nothing at all. Later he'll wear a white poker chip monocle, with a blue eye painted on it by Matisse himself. Later, a golden bird cage might trill within George Garvey's false leg, and his good left hand might possibly be fashioned of shimmering copper and jade.

But at the beginning―gaze upon a terrifyingly ordinary man.

«Financial section, dear?»

The newspapers rattle in his evening apartment.

«Weatherman says „rain tomorrow.“»

The tiny black hairs in his nostrils breathe in, breathe out, softly, softly, hour after hour.

«Time for bed.»

By his look, quite obviously born of several 1907 wax window dummies. And with the trick, much admired by magicians, of sitting in a green velour chair and―vanishing! Turn your head and you forgot his face. Vanilla pudding.

Yet the merest accident made him the nucleus for the wildest avant-garde literary movement in history!

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