Horst-Maxine-Windust

[alice malice]

What? Don't like Horst? Why? He has money? He trades commodities? Nothing
wrong with his job, right? He's an independent craftsman.  He's good. Real
good. Nothing wrong with that. What? He seems like a good guy. There is
that temper. That's not good. He gets violent with Maxine. But other than
that, the novel pits him against the computer and the new kids on the
block, and he gains our approval. Right.

On Saturday, February 22, 2014, Mark Kohut
<markekohut at yahoo.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','markekohut at yahoo.com');>>
wrote:

> Wrong.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 22, 2014, at 9:53 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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