The Man Who Never Opened His Mail
He founded a church with himself as the only member. He titled his compositions *Desiccated Embryos* and marked the tempo "with much illness." When he died, his apartment — unseen by anyone for twenty-seven years — contained two stacked pianos, a hundred umbrellas, and years of mail he'd never opened. Erik Satie accidentally named surrealism and never read a single review. The man who changed music wasn't paying attention to any of it.
