Henri Matisse Music

Henri Matisse MusicHenri Matisse Le bonheur de vivreGeorges Seurat The Circus
WILL BUY EVERYONE A DRINK, he announced.
Later on they taught him a game that consisted of a table with holes and
nets around the edge, and balls carved expertly out of wood, and apparently
balls a foot of the targets they urged on him. He even sent one ricocheting off a nail head and a lamp so that it landed in someone’s beer, which made one of the older men laugh so much he had to be taken outside into the fresh air. They’d called him Good Old Bill.
No-one had ever called him that before.
What a strange evening.
There had been one bad moment, though. He’d heard a small voice say: had to bounceoff one another and into the holes. It was called Pond. He played it well. In fact, he played it perfectly. At the start, hedidn’t know how not to. But after he heard them gasp a few times he corrected himself and started making mistakes with painstaking precision; by the time they taught him darts he was getting really good at them. The more mistakes he made, the more people liked him. So he propelled the little feathery darts with cold skill, never letting one drop within