While visiting a restaurant in Paris one day, Alfred Jarry, a man famed for his eccentricity, found himself attempting to attract the attention of a certain woman who was intently gazing at her own reflection in a mirror on a nearby wall.

Jarry promptly drew his pistol and shot the mirror. A stunned silence naturally followed.

"Now that the mirror is gone," he said, casually replacing the pistol as he turned to the speechless woman, "can we talk to each other?"