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Dramatis Personae

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.

Felicity

Barbara, Felicity's Mother

Harry Best

Prune

Dr. Ken Coffin

Broker Bill and his wife Kate

Mumbai

Nicky, the Greek

Blue Stocking

Rev Hezekiah Bartholomew Smith

Kitty

Marco

The Critic

Sybil

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Flashback - Tuesday, April 8, 2008:  Dinnertime

“More wine, Prune.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Don’t call me sir, Prune. Ken will do.”

“Yes, sir.”

(silence) 

“Some circus he’s got going, Felicity.”

“Leave her alone.”

“Nice manners you've picked up.”

(silence) 

“If I may, I don’t mean, but, could we, I mean, get back to the topic?”

“He’s an unrepentant egoist, Harry. It’s not much harder than that. The freak is a sociopath.”

(silence)

"Don't you think that's going a little far, doctor?”

“Don’t listen to him, Harry. He’s not a real doctor.”

“Felicity, dear. I am a real doctor.”

“I’m not your dear, Ken. Ken, you prefer that?”

“You were once.”

(silence)

“Don’t leav...”

(silence)

“What book is he always quoting?”

“I’m not sure I understand.”

“He’s always going on about it. You know.”

“I’m not quite sure.  You know... Melancholy, ah, well, he reads so many books."

(silence)

"Dante he likes.  Joyce, of course. The one who wrote those wonderful Jeeves and Bertie characters. It was lovely, just lovely, how he would get carried away and read to us.  The author with the funny name. Sounds like tree house.”

“Wodehouse.”

“Ah, yes, of course. Very funny. I believe he started reading, ah, the Bible a few months back. Because of the Reverend, you know.”

“Leave old Coonskin out of it.  One freak at a time.”