Malone Half Remembers the Match King
From Malone Dies : It's the heart's fault, as in the bosom of the match king, Schneider, Schroeder, I forget. It too is burning, with shame, of itself, of me, of them, shame of everything, except of beating apparently. * [From The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett by C.J. Ackerley and S.E. Gontarski] Ivar Kreuger in his office circa 1930 [From Wikimedia Commons, Photographer Unknown]