Eddie Barzoon! Eddie Barzoon! Ha! I nursed him through two divorces, a cocaine
rehab, and a pregnant receptionist. God's creature, right? God's special
creature? Ha! And I've warned him, Kevin, I've warned him every step of the
way. Watching him bounce around like a fucking game, like a wind-up toy! Like
250 pounds of self-serving greed on wheels! The next thousand years is right
around the corner, Kevin, and Eddie Barzoon--take a good look. Because he's
the poster child for the next millennium! These people, it's no mystery where
they come from. You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it could
split atoms with its desire, you build egos the size of cathedrals,
fiberopticly connect the world to every-eager-impulse, grease even the dullest
dreams with these dollar-green gold-played fantasies until every human becomes
an aspiring emperor! Becomes his own God! Where can you go from there? And as
for scrambling from one deal to the next, who's got his eye on the planet? As
the air thickens, the water sours, even the bees honey takes on the metallic
taste of radioactivity--and it just keeps coming! And it just keeps coming!
Faster and faster! There's no chance to think, to prepare, it's `buy futures,
sell futures' when there is no future!! We've got a runaway train, boy!! We've
got a billion Eddie Barzoons all jogging into the future. Every one of them
reading to fist-fuck God's ex-planet, lick their fingers clean as they reach
out with their pristine cybernetic keyboards to total up their billable
hours!! And then it hits home! It's a little late in the game to buy out now!!
Your belly's too full, your dick is sore, your eyes are bloodshot, and you're
screaming for someone to help!! But guess what? There's no one there!! You're
all alone, Eddie!! You're God's special little creature!!