Flash and Dazzle by Lou Aronica
Author:Lou Aronica [Aronica, Lou]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC019000, FICTION / Literary, FIC000000, FICTION / General, FIC043000, FICTION / Coming of Age
Publisher: Story Plant, The
Published: 2013-05-17T00:00:00+00:00
The chapter about
facing more reality
than I was prepared for
Thursday night, Keane and I met at the bar in the Millennium Hotel for a drink. This would be an exercise in restraint for me. Since the last time Iâd seen him, enormous things had happened. However, only some of itâthe part he already knewâwas open for discussion tonight. Keane had made it abundantly clear during our first lunch that he believed that whatever went on in oneâs personal life was not a factor in oneâs professional life and that letting the former impinge on the latterâeven if only to the degree of mentioning it to a potential colleagueâwas a sign of weakness. Therefore, nothing that had gone on since Monday morning was an available topic. Not if I had any interest in remaining in the running for the job with K&C.
âPrince has a hell of a house, doesnât he?â Keane said as he sat down and ordered a Skyy vodka on the rocks.
âItâs amazing,â I said, glad that we had leapt into the safest of all topics. He didnât even bother with such inane preliminaries as asking me how I was doing.
âHe loves that thing like itâs another child. I swear he has separation problems on Monday mornings.â He looked across the room. It wasnât the first time heâd done it in the couple of minutes weâd been together. It seemed as though he was trying to spot someone he knew or to perhaps be noticed himself. He looked back in my direction. âSo Curt said he thought your weekend went well.â
âIâm glad to hear that. I thought it went very well.â
âItâs good that the two of you enjoyed yourselves. If you canât get along with Prince, there really wouldnât be any point in continuing this conversation.â
I nodded, unsure how to respond to that, and got a break when our drinks came. Iâd ordered a cranberry juice and seltzer, even though I wasnât going back to the office.
âIâm not going to lie to you, Rich. Youâve emerged as somewhat of a frontrunner here. Weâve had a number of excellent conversations with other candidates, but Curt has sort of latched onto you. He tends to do that kind of thing, which means itâs incumbent on me to not only retain the clearer head but also to make sure we arenât kidding ourselves.â
I took a sip of my drink. âSo youâre the bad cop.â
âLetâs say Iâm the rational cop.â
âI can appreciate that,â I said, though I wasnât entirely sure that I could. I mean, in a field like advertising, what was really so wrong with the idea of going with your gut? However, my opinions were irrelevantâat least if I wanted to keep my hat in the ring with K&C. It was clear to me that, while the job might involve daily contact with Curt Prince, Noel Keane was the gatekeeper. The entire firm was his operation, and one didnât become part of that operation without his approval.
Over the course of the next
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