“Ben understood at last that money was one big dragon, with a billion dollars for a head, and a penny on the tip of its tail. It had as many voices as there were men and women, and it captured all who were fools enough to listen to it all the time.”
Kurt Vonnegut
While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
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