The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deathwatch beetles, and thrive the centuries. They were the men with the leather-ribbon whips who sweated up the Pyramids seasoning it with other people's salt and other people's cracked hearts. They coursed Europe on the White Horses of the Plague. They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale. Some must have been lazing clowns, foot props for emperors, princes, and epileptic popes. Then out on the road, Gypsies in time, their populations grew as the world grew, spread, and there was more delicious variety of pain to thrive on. The train put wheels under them and here they run down the log road out of the Gothic and baroque; look at their wagons and coaches, the carving like medieval shrines, all of it stuff once drawn by horses, mules, or, maybe, men.
During most of my Bureau career I worked major economic fraud_investigations_and was_amazed at the_schemes con-artist and corrupt corporate and public officials_would_devise_to steal other people__ money._I__e also had the opportunity to work bank robberies and drug investigations. The one thing I know for sure is_ With a gun you can steal hundreds. With a pen you can steal millions.
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During most of my Bureau career I worked major economic fraud_investigations_and was_amazed at the_schemes con-artist and corrupt corporate and public officials_would_devise_to steal other people__ money._I__e also had the opportunity to work bank robberies and drug investigations. The one thing I know for sure is_ With a gun you can steal hundreds. With a pen you can steal millions.
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