Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a weird read.

I absolutely loved reading it, but it was strange watching the plausibility of the play unravel. Picasso spent most of his adult life in France, and it wouldn't be strange for a young Einstein to be in Paris, but he should have been married by then. Then you get Schmendiman, who seems to have never existed in reality, finally followed by a time-travelling avatar of The King. Naturally one would assume that this progression of characters would lend itself to a story that began more seriously than it would end, but I would say if anything the opposite was true. Martin used these really strange moments and then created something introspective and something that was not expectedly farcical. It gave me goosebumps when Elvis said the accomplishments of artists and scientists would outshine governments an policians in the 20th century, it was powerful and I wasn't expecting that at all.