Notes from the Fog by Ben Marcus

Author:Ben Marcus
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2018-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

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George hated to do it. They were having such a good time, and she must get this a lot, but he was her last living blood relative and didn’t he merit some consideration over all the hangers-on who no doubt lived pretty well by buzzing around in her orbit?

“All right, so, I mean, you’re rich, right? Like, insanely so?”

Pattern nodded carefully.

“You could, like, buy anything?”

“My money is tied up in money,” Pattern said. “It’s hard to explain. You get to a point where a big sadness and fatigue takes over.”

“Not me,” said George. “I don’t. Anyway, I mean, it wouldn’t even make a dent for you to, you know, solve my life financially. Just fucking solve it. Right?”

Pattern smiled at him, a little too gently, he thought. It seemed like a bad-news smile.

“You know the studies, right?”

Dear god Jesus. “What studies?”

“About what happens when people are given a lot of money. People like you, with the brain and appetites of an eleven-year-old.”

“Tell me.” He’d let the rest of the comment go.

“It’s not good.”

“Well I don’t exactly want it to be good. I want it to be fun.”

“I don’t think it’s very fun, either, I’m afraid.”

“Don’t be afraid, Pattern. Leave that to me. I will be very afraid, I will be afraid for two, and never have to worry about money again. Depraved, sordid, painful. I’ll go for those. Let me worry about how it will feel.”

Pattern laughed into her drink.

“Sweet, sweet Georgie,” she said.

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