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- Author: Daniel Lefferts
- Full Title:: My Year of Finance Boys
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/02/14/my-year-of-finance-boys/?mc_cid=32fffa539c&mc_eid=2827fdd6e9
- Read date:: 2024-12-31
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the kind of person who lives in your memory only as a pleasing, gleaming outline, devoid of eyes. (View Highlight)
On our first date he took me to a “speakeasy” in the Village, and I put that word in quotes because the whole bar was in quotes: conspicuously nondescript entrance, bartenders dressed in vaguely steampunk outfits pouring ingredients from brown glass medicine bottles, hazardously dim lights and lurid red accents meant to evoke, I supposed, the glamour of Prohibition. (View Highlight)
He was hungry for book recommendations, though it became clear that his literary tastes tended toward the subgenre of TEDx: Daniel Kahneman, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Yuval Noah Harari. (View Highlight)
Fictional tears are no less desperate than real ones; pretending has a sadness all its own. (View Highlight)