The Uninvited

he’s not involved in. He sees it as achallenge to make me laugh, and when hesucceeds, he punches the air with his fistand shouts, ‘I win!’ and demands that Imake him an ozuru as a ‘humour tax’. I’veworked with Phipps & Wexman for fiveyears and he now has thirteen of them on ashelf next to his family portrait: a set ofparents and a big-eyed sister with herhusband and four kids. He likes to amusevisitors by pretending to feed the origamibirds confetti collected from holepunchers.‘We’ll have to do some rethinking,’says Ashok. ‘I’m sorry to lay this on you,but Sunny Chen’s dead.’ I mentally selecta sheet of origami paper. I make a frogbase. This I double-sink fold, then blintz.‘You still there bud? You hear what I