Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page29 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI have no idea,\u201d says KristalClear, \u201cI\u2019m sixteen. It\u2019s going to be a long time before I have to retire.\u201d<\/p>\n —o—<\/p>\n \u201cHow much is enough,\u201d asks NutJob, \u201cand then what?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d asks KristalClear, \u201cyou\u2019re the second person today talking to me in riddles.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh, I\u2019m sorry, I didn\u2019t mean it like that! I was talking about HopAlong, about farming, about business. Your dad\u2019s a businessman isn\u2019t he? He runs a shop?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYeah? So?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy dad works in a bank. It\u2019s his job to help businesses with loans, and he\u2019s always asking about the end game<\/em>. He likes to tell me the story of Thomas Mann.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat does it mean end game<\/em>? Who\u2019s Thomas Mann?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow will HopAlong know when he has enough money to retire? How will your dad know? My dad goes on about this all the time. The end game<\/em>. Retirement. I\u2019ve heard this story a dozen times!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMine never talks to me about money, or retirement,\u201d says KristalClear, \u201che just tells me I always have to put something aside for a rainy day, save something out of my weekly wages!\u201d<\/p>\n NutJob emphasises the question again, \u201cso how much is enough, and then what? It\u2019s a story about greed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI thought we were all just trying to survive,\u201d says KristalClear, \u201cto have enough money to be able to cope, that\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n NutJob tells the story of the ten year old boy in the cake shop. As told by somebody called Thomas Mann from the 1930s.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a story about a grandfather who takes a little boy to a luxury cake shop for a special treat on his tenth birthday. He was told that he can have a small cake or two, but that he must eat the cakes while he\u2019s still inside the caf\u00e9. In fact, he could have more than two. He could have as many cakes as he liked,<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page29 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page29 \u2013 Next \u201cI have no idea,\u201d says KristalClear, \u201cI\u2019m sixteen. It\u2019s going to be a long time before I have to retire.\u201d —o— \u201cHow much is enough,\u201d asks NutJob, \u201cand then what?\u201d \u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d asks KristalClear, \u201cyou\u2019re the second person today talking to me in riddles.\u201d \u201cOh, I\u2019m … Continue reading “Chapter 4 In Philosophical Mood029”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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