Horst-Maxine-Windust

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Horst and Windust seem co-dependent.


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From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
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Subject: Re: Horst-Maxine-Windust


Nice.
But Windust appears to be a bit old-school himself as far as the craft 
of hands
on dirty work, and to be some kind of a true believer in some mythical 
America
even as the real America is betraying him.  Is it the agency that kills 
him or
do others read it differently?




On Feb 22, 2014, at 9:53 AM, alice malice 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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