Short Stories:Vanya on 57th Street

Illustration no. 3 from Daniil Kharms’s Four illustrations on how a new idea disconcerts someone who is not prepared:

Composer: I am a composer.

Vanya Rublov: I think you are shit!

(Composer, barely breathing, falls to the floor and is carried out.)

h/t Vladimir Martynov, from the liner notes to Come In! (aka the music used by Jorma Elo in his exceptional work for the SF Ballet's New Works Festival; some video here of Elo's piece, though the music is Dvorak, not Martynov)