He did not inherit the chair.
Our correspondent attends the table and finds it already occupied.
Nobody recalls him arriving. He was simply always at the table, in the same tuxedo, holding the same camera, photographing a room that had not asked to be photographed.
He does not check the chart. The chart checks on him. Asked for comment on the price, he raised the camera and fired the flash, which our correspondent understood to be the comment.
Every member of this establishment began precisely where you are now: outside it, reading about it. This is not a moral failing. It is simply the order of events.
The tuxedo, it should be said, is not a costume. It is what happens to you.
— Continued on the chart