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—Not when he loses, Christina. It’s when this who he thinks he is loses, what the whole thing’s all about isn’t it? He goes off on a frolic of his own writes a play and expects the world to roll out the carpet for . . .

—A frolic! Where in God’s name did you get that, I mean have you ever seen a…

—Well my God Harry don’t tell, don’t get Oscar’s hopes up, I mean this whole brittle shell he’s put together for who he thinks he is now but suddenly I look through that mangy beard and cigar smoke and see the face of the little boy down there by the pond that day with the little canoe he’d made, h…

—Well my God I mean you knew that didn’t you? that he’d never have been made managing partner in a fine old white shoe blue ribbon outfit like Swyne & Dour without a good dose of that old school tie duplicity? that he thinks you think like he would, so he’ll think it first, that you might sue them …

—Of course I do, let me finish. Of course it’s madness, but the madness comes first. It’s an essential of the human condition, the worse the human condition the greater the madness and your revealed religion simply comes along to channel the madness, give some shape to it. For these unlettered hord…

—Just stop here for a minute and let me put in a disclaimer, want to be clear that I’m not giving or even purporting to give you legal advice, just another formality. That’s what you pay for. You think I want something else out of it? I got something else. I got a chance I’d have never had otherwis…