MIND THE GAP

(breaking the proscenium)

Everyone at Goll Bank in the small town of Breton Vaché was incredibly bold. The boldest people in town - perhaps in the whole country. The funny thing was, they were not bold at all before starting to work at the bank.

It was a mystery.

My aunt was one of them. I remember how she changed. Almost overnight. Uncanny.

Back in Paris, management became alarmed. People working in that branch were now so bold they might start doing weird things, like exposing what was going on there to the general public.

Special teams were dispatched to investigate the phenomenon.

They tried to find out what was making people at the bank grow so bold. Couldn't find a common thread linking all those bold men and women aside from the fact they worked at Goll’s and lived in Breton Vaché.

The theories they came up with always seemed to hang by a single hair; too feeble to be believable.

Oh. Wait. I meant bald, not bold. Sorry about that. 

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Jacques Vaché (7 September 1895 – 6 January 1919) was a friend of André Breton, the founder of surrealism. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement.

André Robert Breton (19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, known as a principal theorist and co-founder of surrealism.

Yvan Goll (29 March 1891 – 27 February 1950) was a French-German poet who wrote in both French and German. He had close ties to both German expressionism and to French surrealism.

In 1924 Goll and Breton quarrelled about the leadership, definition, and direction of the Surrealist movement.