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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

Ladies

"Mell, you back tomorrow?"

"Captain, I gotta go home.  Everyone is too fucking polite here.  I can't take a shit without someone bowing to me.  I miss the barbarism of America."

"But the women..."

(silence)

"Yes, well..."

(silence)

"You know, captain. I do have one regret now that the Hill-Billy is out."

"Mell. Don't..."

"I think Slick would have made a great First Lady."

(silence)

"Well, I mean, he has more of a feminine side than..."

"Jesus."

"He does that weepy, hangdog thing so well. You know, the Mister Sad Eyes, Sensitive Man routine. Women love that."

"The sushi's been getting to you, Mell."

"The country needs a warm mother."

(silence)

"I don't know about hangdog, Mell. Horndog, maybe. And I don't want to think that about my mother."