For my hirsute homunculus pal Dr Pot, here follows an 'Incidence' of Daniil Kharms, who is not only my favourite looking author, but a mighty great writer too...
The Plummeting Old Woman
A certain old woman, out of excessive curiosity, fell out of a window, plummeted to the ground, and was smashed to pieces.
Another old woman leaned out of the window and began looking at the remains of the first one, but she also, out of excessive curiosity, fell out of the window, plummeted to the ground and was smashed to pieces.
Then a third old woman plummeted from the window, then a fourth, then a fifth.
By the time a sixth old woman had plummeted down, I was fed up watching them, and went off to Mal'tseviskiy Market where, it was said, a knitted shawl had been given to a certain blind man.
THE END
[Blogging post-scriptum:- suddenly made me think of the style of Gilliam's Python animations, with their old 'Pepperpot' women. But Kharms was writing in the 1920s. Eventually he was censored, and only allowed to write children's stories and teach. He couldn't stop with the dastardly absurdist satire though, and died in a gulag in 1941.]
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