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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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Wednesday
18Jun

International Calls

DateWednesday, June 18, 2008 at 06:06AM in

"One last question."

"Yes?"

"If you could pick one writer who influenced your life, not your writing, necessarily, but your life..."

"Not Stephen Dedalus?"

"A writer."

(silence)

"Somerset Maugham."

"Really?"

"Yes.  Is that odd?"

"No, but..."

"Maugham taught me everything I know about women."

(silence)

"Let me see if I have this straight. Heh."

(silence)

"Everything you know about women is from a writer who was the most famous closeted homosexual of his generation?"

(silence)

"Well, I didn't realize that at the time."

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