It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

• Ulrich Becher
  January 2, 1910
  Berlin, Germany
• Caspar MB “Cas” Bass
  January 6, 1818
  Netherlands
• Peter Barnes
  January 10, 1931
  Bow, London, U.K.
• Christopher Hampton
  January 26, 1946
  Faial, Azores
• Ken Hill
  January 28, 1948
  Birmingham, England, U.K.

Yes. Apparently he defeats all comers with an impregnable combination of tediousness and avarace. It is darkly rumoured that he cannot resist rifling the pockets of those who fall unconscious at the monotony of his anecdotes.

Rimbaud, Total Eclipse, p.15
by Christopher Hampton