She wore a Moyle’s hair sweater, a gift from the St. Vincent de Van Gough. One of the employees, who had a pointillist’s chin, garishly small feet and lived with a cantor who owned a delicatessen specializing in imported or unusual foods and ingredients; cooked meats, cheeses and pickles, and kept Moyle shears in the back room, should one wish to make a purchase or simply have a look at the snippets, cautioned her against wearing the sweater next to her skin, claiming it caused chancres and bedsores. The cantor had boils on his neck, collar and nape, and a birthmark that looked like an animal cracker on his forehead, just above his eye and to the left. He once considered snipping his ear off, but refrained, as his girlfriend, who was employed by the Vincent de Van Gough Society, cautioned him against it, claiming it caused bedsores and madness, and might affect his eyesight and increase the frequency and soreness of his boils.
