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[Jan. 20th, 2011|01:42 pm]
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Burdēna grāmatas 3. nodaļa The Rich Eat Differently Than You and Me sākas šādi:



I was holed up in the Caribbean about midway through a really bad time. My first marriage had just ended and I was, to say the least, at loose ends.
By ”loose ends” I mean aimless and regularly suicidal. I mean that my daily routine began with me waking up around ten, smoking a joint, and going to the beach—where I'd drink myself stupid on beer, smoke a few more joints, and pass out until mid-afternoon. This to be followed by an early-evening rise, another joint, and then off to the bars, followed by the brothels. By then, usually very late at night, I'd invariably find myself staggeringly drunk—the kind of drunk where you've got to put a hand over one eye to see straight. On the way back from one whorehouse or another, I'd stop at the shwarma truck on the Dutch side of the island, and, as best I could, shove a meat-filled pita into my face, sauce squirting onto my shirtfront. Then, standing there in the dark parking lot, surrounded by a corona of spilled sauce, shredded lettuce, and lamb fragments, I'd fire up another joint before sliding behind the wheel of my rented 4×4, yank the top down, then peel onto the road with a squeal of tires.
To put it plainly, I was driving drunk. Every night. There is no need to lecture me. To tell what might have happened. That wasting my own stupid life is one thing—but that I could easily have crushed how many innocents during that time? I know. Looking back, I break into an immediate cold sweat just thinking about it. Like a lot of things in my life, there's no making it prettier just 'cause time's passed. It happened. It was bad. There it is.

tālāk seko pasāža par dēku ar Vrotšīlda mazmeitu un sviestainu ceļojumu uz kādu salu, kur tusē ze elite un pročijs bom(žm)ōns.

I soon found out that to move in this woman's poisonous orbit was to willingly attach oneself to a sinister global network of Italian art collectors, creepy Russian oligarchs, horny Internet billionaires, the wrinkled ex-wives of Indonesian despots, princelings from kingdoms that long ago ceased to exist, mistresses of African dictators, former-hookers-turned-millionairesses, and the kind of people who like hanging around with such people—or who make their living doing so. All seemed to come over over the holidays to say "fuck you" to each other. With a smile, of course.
We spent a somewhat less than romantic New Year's Eve at a party hosted by the Gaddafis. That should tell you something. Enrique Iglesias provided the entertainment. A detail that lingers in the memory like a birthmark on one's torturer's cheek.
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From:[info]kants
Date:January 20th, 2011 - 02:48 pm
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a cmuki!
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From:[info]dooora
Date:January 20th, 2011 - 02:59 pm
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Who had a bigger boat, wore the better outfit, got the best table seemed all that mattered. There were decade-old feuds over casual cracks long forgotten by everyone but the principals. They circled each other still—waiting to identify a weakness—looking for somewhere and some way to strike. People jockeyed for position, cut each other's throats over the most petty, nonsensical shit imaginable. This is from the people who, it gradually began to dawn on me, actually run the world.
I was lingering over the buffet on a Dr. No-size yacht with an appropriately Bond-esque name: huge interior docking inside the hull, a six-man submarine, landing space for two helicopters, and Francis Bacon originals in the crapper. I looked up from the sushi and got the impression that anybody there—any of the guests dancing, schmoozing, chatting politely at the party—would have watched my throat getting cut without the slightest change in expression.
I was a bad person in a bad place, with another bad person, surrounded by other, possibly even worse people.
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From:[info]dooora
Date:January 20th, 2011 - 03:11 pm

Robèrt in the hood

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Fiftyish men with potbellies hanging out over their Speedos with pneumatic-breasted Ukrainian whores—during brunch. Over-groomed little dogs in diamond chokers snapped and barked at one's heels. Waiters looked at everyone with practiced expressions of bemused contempt.
There was, however, one glimmer of light—or inspiration—in all this darkness:
One man on the island understood better than anyone the world my companion moved in. An artist, a genius—a man who stood alone in his ability, the sheer relish with which he fucked the rich. Let's call him, for the purposes of this discussion, Robèrt…
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From:[info]dooora
Date:January 20th, 2011 - 03:26 pm

šitas Ivō patiks. un veģetāriešiem

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For the main course, there is the option of chicken or fish. Chicken is one leg, which Robèrt himself (that's him, the scowling, shirtless, and unshaven fellow over there, wearing an apron, shorts, and flip-flops) will personally burn into unrecognizability for you. Nothing less than carbonized will satisfy his exacting standards. Robèrt will take the extra step to ruin your chicken each and every time. People who've had the temerity* to step over to the grill preemptively and suggest that, perhaps, this order could be a little less cooked find themselves quickly in the street—next to Madonna.
The fish option is a small, barely cleaned, whole red snapper, prepared with similar attention to detail—which is to say, burned to shit.
Price for these delights of land and sea? Fifty euros (about seventy-five bucks) each.
Add a chilled bottle of the cheapest rosé on the list to stave off the summer's heat, and ameliorate, perhaps, the taste of campfire in your mouth, and you're talking five hundred dollars for lunch. Merci—and fuck you very much!
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* - pārgalvība
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From:[info]rasbainieks
Date:January 20th, 2011 - 04:53 pm

Re: šitas Ivō patiks. un veģetāriešiem

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ahh, cik jauki, izmests uz ielas blakus madonnai!
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From:[info]dooora
Date:January 20th, 2011 - 05:10 pm

Re: šitas Ivō patiks. un veģetāriešiem

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galdautiņš-celiņš uz bruģi
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From:[info]rediiss
Date:January 20th, 2011 - 02:57 pm
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par to iglesiasu skaisti :DDD bet vispār viņš tīri labi iederās pašiznīcināšanās scenārijā.