> > [...] > I still wonder sometimes how different my life would have > been if I had taken them up on the > offer. > > William Robb
but would untold wealth really have bought you happiness? Sure, you could have bought 40ft boats by the fleetload and sent them all to Norway just for the hell of it; yes, you'd have been able to sleep with any woman on the planet; of course, you'd have been able to wine and dine in the finest restaurants, and have private boxes in the theatre and opera; naturally the world's best rock bands would have queued up to play for you at your birthday parties. Kings and presidents would have sought your advice for their colour-matching problems. You'd have had freezer cabinets full of free film for life. You'd have had the power of life and death over the colour-blind huddled masses of the world. You could have kept matching pairs of jaguars and cheetahs in a paradise garden filled with peacocks and year-round fruiting trees, just because you liked their colours. Heston Blumental would have been your private chef, and he would light his oven using pages torn from the Codex Atlanticus, because the special qualities of the smoke add a tiny soupcon of nuance to the hot dogs he boils for you. The mighty nation of Belgium would have donated a Trappist monastery to you so that only you could drink their beer. The pope himself would have prayed 5 times a day for your eternal soul, and your lovely wife would have had her own team of plastic surgeons on 24-hour callout so she could look more like the gorgeous Jocelyn Wildenstein. But would you have been happy? I tell you, it is easier for a rich man to go through the eye of a camel than a needle in heaven. Or something. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
