Algazy

 

"Algazy is a nice old man with a toothless smile, his beard shaven and silky, neatly laid out on a grill that is screwed under his chin and surrounded by barbed wire… Algazy does not speak any European languages… But if you wait for him first thing in the morning and you say to him: “Good morning, Algazy!” and you stress the sound z, Algazy smiles and, to show his gratitude, sticks his hand in his pocket and pulls the end of a string that makes his beard shake joyously for fifteen minutes…"

Urmuz