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Accursed Plasticity

Elbert was a kinetic puppeteer, frequently engaging in timbered merrymaking as he constructed his farcical marionettes. His landlord, Mr. DeVille, was not amused by this dotty jocularity. He sometimes called Elbert an "asinine garbanzo" to his face, especially when the rent was overdue. Elbert would try to appease him with orgiastic supplication; if that didn't work, he would offer to cook dinner for DeVille, attempting to tempt him with his fleshiest knockwurst.

The landlord, who never refused a free meal, would sit stiffly at the table, his facial features at first a study in gimcrack brittleness. The conversation was always initially strained, with DeVille engaging in cankerous bombast while Elbert attempted to parry this with jokes that never elicited more than a constipated smidgen of a smile from his landlord. But then Elbert would seat one of his puppets at the table and, throwing his voice, ply Deville with absurd compliments through the wooden moppet. Soon enough, this would melt DeVille's resolve, resulting in yet another extension on Elbert's rent.

"Oh, my accursed plasticity!" DeVille would later lament, while visions of wood chips and sawdust danced in his head.

[not be be continued]