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Chop up two-thirds of the dialogue into bon mots and it’d make a great book of inspirational quotes, the sort of thing a thoughtful auntie would slip into a kid’s stocking at Christmas.

Yet it’s also, via Hart’s acerbic bon mots, an incisive exploration of two opposing views of art.

He dished out the bons mots with each entrance like he was a thirsty Pascal who paid for his drinks in pensées, which made him an inspiration.

Most cards include cryptic, sometimes multilingual bon mots written with his beloved Sumi-e brush pens.

Would you say you enjoy when one of these bon mots blows up?