TRTR(I.7) Inherent Vice

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, so 4 times?...that nothing lasts, nothing?....Not even art?



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From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thu, June 9, 2011 11:54:42 AM
Subject: Re: TRTR(I.7) Inherent Vice

Jed Kelestron  wrote:
> Let it be clear that no one insures against inherent vice.
>

(and no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition!)

but seriously, it occurs 4 times in the context of saying that no one
insures against it.

and that's part of how this Basil Valentine establishes himself as a
kind of authority although I'm thinking that in criminal terms, Brown
suborns forgery and BV is a fence?

which still earns him some grudging respect (along with the wish that
his powers were used for good) - like you respect a cat burglar, it
takes a lot of skill and so forth

which may be his rationalization for his criminal ways, as well as a
demonstration of the knowledge he needs for some of the aspects of
plying his trade - there's probably an angle to be worked in the fact
that nobody insures against inherent vice?