The Dismal Science by Peter Mountford

Author:Peter Mountford [Mountford, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781935639732
Publisher: Tin House Books

The sky was clearing up and the views to lower Manhattan were majestic. Leonora would surely disapprove. But she was living quite squalidly now, coping with the harsher realities of a small paycheck, and maybe her once-swift dismissal of such a career, such a lifestyle, had been tempered. The same girl who had immediately refused a payout to attend an in-state university, had also—once she had arrived a few years deeper into adulthood—happily scampered into Saks Fifth Avenue in search of new clothes. She wasn’t a material girl, of course, but the matter of her father’s paychecks and the role of those paychecks in her life couldn’t possibly seem irrelevant. Back at his hotel room later that afternoon, he wrote an e-mail to Colin thanking him for inviting him to New York and saying that he was absolutely interested in working at Lehman, but he needed a little time to organize his affairs. He’d try to keep the press at bay while in Bolivia, he promised.

Then he wrote an e-mail to Lenka Villarobles, and cc’d Walter:

This sounds fantastic. I talked to Walter (cc’d) and we think this would be a great event. I’m looking forward to it. Let us know when you want us there and any other details.

Afterward, he wrote a separate e-mail to Walter, saying:

Talked to friend at Lehman and it sounds great. While we’re in Bolivia, I need to be on good behavior. No more wailing against the system in the press.

And he wrote an e-mail to his daughter:

I’m busy tonight. Can we meet tomorrow morning?

Then he called down to in-room dining and ordered a glass of champagne.

“Just one glass?” the operator said.

“Just one,” he replied tersely. “Is that acceptable?”

“Oh—I’m sorry,” the person stammered.

“It’s fine.” He hung up.

Screw them all! Yes! Goddamn it! He felt good—no, great! Fuck them all—he was having champagne in his heavenly hotel room that evening while the snow whirled again out his window under the swiftly darkening sky.

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