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
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 11:28AM in intermezzi "Metafiction, like metaphysics, is pornography for second-rate minds."
"Be kind."
"I bet the critics would love to wrap their dirty hands all over..."
"Melancholy!"
(silence)
"Yes?"
"You promised."
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