The Bonfire of the Vanities Page #6

who raise the money.

502

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That's what he said. Bonds.

503

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Just imagine that a bond is a slice of cake.

504

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Now, you didn't bake that cake.

505

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But every time you hand a slice

of that cake to somebody else...

506

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a little piece comes off.

507

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Little crumbs fall off.

508

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Really. Crumbs?

509

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And you are allowed to keep those crumbs.

510

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And many a man has sold his soul

for those little crumbs.

511

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And that's what Daddy does.

512

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Daddy passes somebody else's cake around

and picks up all of the crumbs.

513

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But you have to imagine a lot of crumbs,

and a great big golden cake...

514

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and a lot of golden crumbs.

515

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And imagine Daddy running around

picking up every little golden crumb...

516

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he can grab.

517

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And that's what Daddy does.

518

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You can call them crumbs if you want to.

519

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I'm doing the best I can.

520

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Excuse me.

521

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In my day, there was some integrity to it.

522

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Now it isn't about anything, is it?

Except the money.

523

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Well, I don't make the rules, so...

524

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All the more reason not to play the game.

525

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We're just having a little...

526

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It's nothing really.

527

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Up to this point in our story,

I was blissfully ignorant.

528

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I had no idea of the storm

that was gathering.

529

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Never even heard of Sherman McCoy.

530

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Hadn't the faintest notion that soon

his name would be inexorably tied to mine.

531

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That his fate would be inextricably bound

to my own destiny.

532

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I had my own problems...

533

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and I had no idea that Sherman McCoy

was the solution I was looking for.

534

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You're bad!

535

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Caroline, you look beautiful!

536

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-You devil.

-You pig.

537

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-Join us for a cocktail.

-No, I'm with someone.

538

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And a pretty someone he is.

539

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Filippo Chirazzi, the artist.

Peter Fallow, the has-been.

540

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Enchant.

541

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We're crowded this evening.

542

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Why don't you sit on top of Billy Cortez?

543

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I'll see if Caroline will sit on my face.

544

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No thanks. The last time I sat on your face

I got a yeast infection.

545

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Good evening, Peter.

546

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Good evening.

547

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Don't get up. Do you know my daughter?

548

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Of course. How are you, Evelyn?

549

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This is one of my invisible employees.

550

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One of the many journalists

who supposedly write for my newspaper.

551

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You're very honored to see him.

552

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I rarely do.

553

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I can explain. Come have a drink--

554

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We're having a private party.

555

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I was at a dinner last evening,

and halfway through the pudding...

556

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a 4-year-old child came in

dragging a little toy cart.

557

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And on the cart was a fresh turd.

558

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Her own, I suppose.

559

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The parents just shook their heads

and smiled.

560

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I've made a big investment in you, Peter.

561

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Time and money, and it's not working.

562

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I could just shake my head and smile.

563

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But in my house, when a turd appears,

we deal with it.

564

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We dispose of it. We flush it away.

565

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We don't put it on the table

and call it caviar.

566

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Of course you don't.

I've been working at home.

567

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I'm working on a story that I can't talk

about here. It's a big story.

568

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I sincerely hope so, Peter.

569

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I sincerely hope so.

570

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It was the end of the road for me.

I could see it coming.

571

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See it coming? It was here.

572

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I'd had my chance and I'd blown it away

in a bottle.

573

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It was over. I had to face up to that fact.

574

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I could go back home.

575

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Small town, small newspaper.

576

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Or I could write a novel or two.

577

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Or I could slit my wrists.

578

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This last idea seemed most appealing,

as it required the least amount of effort.

579

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And then the telephone rang.

580

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Yeah?

581

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Peter! Albert Fox here.

582

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Peter?

583

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Peter!

584

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Yeah, this is Peter.

585

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You sound terrific.

586

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Any pulse?

587

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I called the paper. No one knew

where you were or who you were.

588

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Anything I should know?

589

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No, I'm just working at home today.

590

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Good. There's something

I want to talk to you about.

591

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There's a hell of a story in it.

592

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Meet me at NBC, studio 4H, 7:00.

593

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Ciao.

594

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Yeah. Ciao.

595

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You see that Henry Lamb material?

596

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Yeah, I looked at it.

597

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