You remember Philip Gibbs, yeah? Jesus. He used to be a fund manager at Jupiter, then he retired. Now he keeps criticizing the firm, saying crazy stuff, like ... well, at the recent AGM, he said that all the young dude fund managers are in danger from the older managers and financial shamans who want to suck the blood out of them. 'Ha!' It's absolutely ridiculous, of course. As you know, dear reader(s), Phil was always a cold earth wanderer, even though Keith Busby and I offered to train him up in the ways of the shaman, the astral plane, the desert, and all the rest of it. He turned us down flat. 'And me!' Yeah, and, er ... you, Voice. (Wasn't it the mystic child in those days? Oh, I can't remember ...) Phil was happy to be on the wrong side of history. Everyone else at Jupiter was mad for it. 'They couldn't get enough, boss.' No, they couldn't. As a result, the firm has a higher percentage of shamans than any other financial business today, including Goldman Sachs. 'Incredible!' That's my legacy.
Well, well, well ... / Anyway, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this nonsense. 'Life's too short, Mikey.' Phil should move on. / The funny thing is, the desert and old-school shamanism don't even exist no more. I mean, not in our hearts, and our souls. However, Phil wouldn't know this. He probably thinks we're still all running around naked in the moonlight every night of the week. 'Ha!' Times change, man. I doubt very much I'll open up the desert again until ... I become a rock and roll shaman like the late great Jim Morrison. Maybe not even then ...
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This is 2014! / In 2014 we get a-ROUND! 'Yeah!' Conceptual shit is the new shamanism, financial and non-financial. / So, after lunch ... No. 221! The afternoon, and into the night!!!
Well, well, well ... / Anyway, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this nonsense. 'Life's too short, Mikey.' Phil should move on. / The funny thing is, the desert and old-school shamanism don't even exist no more. I mean, not in our hearts, and our souls. However, Phil wouldn't know this. He probably thinks we're still all running around naked in the moonlight every night of the week. 'Ha!' Times change, man. I doubt very much I'll open up the desert again until ... I become a rock and roll shaman like the late great Jim Morrison. Maybe not even then ...
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This is 2014! / In 2014 we get a-ROUND! 'Yeah!' Conceptual shit is the new shamanism, financial and non-financial. / So, after lunch ... No. 221! The afternoon, and into the night!!!
