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Volume 1, page 3621
A very striking passage. Money and wealth are very important because money can be exchanged for other things. This makes the value of money contingent: I am able to buy a comfortable bed, Californian sun and air, books, and interesting food and wine. I can buy interesting opportunities for Julian, Nicola, Parthenope. And when I am reminded, as I drink wine, by F., that I do not have to have food, I am angry – having had breakfast and lunch. Why? Gluttony – which I know cannot yield what I seek. Is gluttony concerned with quantity? Amount of pleasure, prestige; quality even?
“I have told you”, says X. Told me what? I would not be asking if I thought I'd been told. I ask because I think I have not been told, and have something I have not told X. Schizophrenics tell me what I don't want to know: the ambiguous smile, the love of money, the greed for time, salesmanship.