Please note that characters are added as they reveal themselves and become part of the story.
The Melancholy Korean is a former derivatives trader living in New York. He loves Dante, James Joyce and Flaubert. He has studied French, German, Japanese, Sanskrit, and Hebrew, but of these languages, he remembers only, "avez-vous un cendrier?" Yes, he smokes. No, he doesn't know Korean.
Leon Badges is a painter, illustrator, draftsman, and cartoonist.
Barbara, Felicity's Mother
Prune
Dr. Ken Coffin
Broker Bill and his wife Kate
Mumbai
Rev Hezekiah Bartholomew Smith
Marco
“You didn’t see it, did you?”
“Nicky...”
“I can’t believe it, buttercup. We crushed ‘em. F*cking LaTroy Hawkins. Stand up guy. He gave up 21, did you hear?”
“What are you babbling on about?”
“Come on, man. That was Paulie’s number.”
“Nicky...”
“Buttercup. You’re like the biggest Yankees fan I know. You can’t keep doing this to me.”
“She left.”
“What do you mean she left?”
“Felicity. She’s gone.”
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 06:28AM