eh, it comes to
money people stop being
human pretty quick
Anyway, now he’s up there in bed watching them cart out the furniture from under him.
It won’t go that quickly, they have laws about it, and they must be only human after all.
When it comes to money, people stop being human pretty quick.
What’s going to happen to the building?
They’ll chase out the ghosts.
But what if they’re good ghosts?
Still. How can anyone end up in that much debt, eh?
Because people don’t know what they’re doing.
They all run around with their pressed shirts and gold fountain pens, thinking they’re important and not even realising they’re carrying around their own disaster in their briefcases.
From The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler, English translation by Katy Derbyshire (Canongate Books Ltd: Edinburg, 2025).
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