a few simple lines about the New York Presidency intuited and pierced in BLEEDING EDGE

Tue Oct 30 06:05:37 CDT 2018

"Maybe the management don't want to pay overtime."
"I heard it's run by the mob."
"Which mob exactly, Heidi? And what difference does it make?"
Plenty as it would turn out.
                                    ----- page 29, end of Chap 3.

"Hundred," sighs Maxine. "Five hundred, jeez all right I'm impressed. But
it's only enough I can start
a ticket. Next invoice you can be Donald Trump or whatever, OK?" ---p.65