Horst-Maxine-Windust

[alice malice]

Horst does not adopt the new technologies that have all but buggy-whipped
the traders in Chicago and in NYC by the time he moves to NYC.  He takes a
sublet in the tower not because he has finally given in to computer trading
but because he wants to keep at his old craft trade as long as possible. He
is, as he says, a dinosaur. As he says, the computer trading has taken over
and he can do his job anywhere now, but he wants to trade the old way.
Though the trading pits in the building of Lower Manhattan are on the lover
floors, Horst takes a sublet at the top. These floors have been relegated
to the old world traders, guys and gals who trade bonds and act as dealers
for UST Securities, so Cantor Fitzgerald the Firm hardest hit on September
the 11th. The novel clearly sides with Horst and his craft. His magic, his
luck and fortune, not unlike the author's own, is set against, not
entangled in the computer traded world that allies itself with the
neo-liberalism of Windust.
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