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et slim man had singled her out. He talked little about himself, and was still unknown. Some people believed him to be a composer of lyr ical poems. She fell headlong in love with him. The poet absentmind edly became engaged to her, and on the very first day of matrimony explained, with a sad smile, that he did not know how to write poetry, and there and then, in the middle of the conversation, he transformed an old alarm clock into a nickel-plated chronometer, and the chronom eter into a miniature gold watch, which Nora had worn ever since on her wrist. She understood that nevertheless conjuror Shock was, in his own way, a poet: only she could not get used to his demonstrating his art e