1. Keep an eye out
for her dearly beloved.Copy !req
2. Little bird told me
Shadow's on his way.Copy !req
3. I just need to get to Cairo.Copy !req
4. - It's Cay-row.
- It's Cay—? Cay-row?Copy !req
5. I was old in the desertCopy !req
6. before they sacrificed
the first horse to you.Copy !req
7. I will be heard.Copy !req
8. I wonder,
if you don't choose a side,Copy !req
9. will you be
trampled by both?Copy !req
10. Mrs. Moon and I have a dateCopy !req
11. with my old friend Argus.Copy !req
12. The man with all the eyes,
Argus Penoptes.Copy !req
13. I need you
to kill him.Copy !req
14. He's been playing both sidesCopy !req
15. and I need to get him
off the field.Copy !req
16. He dies, your coin recharges.Copy !req
17. Live to see the futureCopy !req
18. with Shadow that you've put
so much unearned faith in.Copy !req
19. I told Argus to upgrade
this hub eons ago!Copy !req
20. Get your man in line!Copy !req
21. Um, guys?Copy !req
22. Never mind.Copy !req
23. Listen.Copy !req
24. - I know Bach.
- Listen.Copy !req
25. He'd only just returned
from a tripCopy !req
26. to find that his wife had died.Copy !req
27. Bach had already lost
three children.Copy !req
28. He would lose
seven more.Copy !req
29. This is grief.Copy !req
30. And yet...Copy !req
31. The rising notes
of joy...Copy !req
32. shattering his own rules.Copy !req
33. Can you hear it?Copy !req
34. This is how men like me pray.Copy !req
35. Play it again.Copy !req
36. This is...Copy !req
37. It's beautiful, like Bach.Copy !req
38. You composed this?Copy !req
39. Well, I-I created the engine
that did.Copy !req
40. I translated all of Bach's
cantatas into a databaseCopy !req
41. then wrote a program
that segmented the notesCopy !req
42. into digital objectsCopy !req
43. the way that Bach statistically
intended to. Um...Copy !req
44. But everything it created was
mechanical, artificial.Copy !req
45. The real insight was
in programmingCopy !req
46. violations
to the predictable variations.Copy !req
47. I gave it permission
to shatter the rules.Copy !req
48. The computer composed this?Copy !req
49. Yeah.Copy !req
50. It's writing more now.Copy !req
51. I'm glad you came.Copy !req
52. No, no, no, no.Copy !req
53. My wife,
she'll kill you.Copy !req
54. Not me.Copy !req
55. Let it happen.Copy !req
56. Now rest.Copy !req
57. Let it go.Copy !req
58. Good morning.Copy !req
59. Did you sleep well?Copy !req
60. Huh?Copy !req
61. Did you sleep well?Copy !req
62. Well, there was...Copy !req
63. Well...Copy !req
64. Yeah. Yeah, it was good.Copy !req
65. Good.Copy !req
66. So, this is a coroner's office?Copy !req
67. Coroners are a political
appointment around here.Copy !req
68. His job is to kick the corpse.Copy !req
69. If it doesn't kick him back,
he signs the death certificate.Copy !req
70. I'm what they call a prosector.Copy !req
71. I work for the county
medical examiner.Copy !req
72. I do autopsies and saveCopy !req
73. tissue samples for analysis.Copy !req
74. In addition, we are
a funeral parlor,Copy !req
75. serving Cairo, Illinois,
since 1863Copy !req
76. when it was a flourishing town
at the crossing of two rivers.Copy !req
77. We could go back much longer
than that, of course,Copy !req
78. but it wasn't until
the War Between the StatesCopy !req
79. that we found our niche.Copy !req
80. That was when we became
the funeral parlorCopy !req
81. for the colored folks
hereabouts.Copy !req
82. Before that, no one
thought of us as colored...Copy !req
83. Foreign maybe, exotic and dark,
but not colored.Copy !req
84. And it's strange, when they talk
about African Americans.Copy !req
85. My colleagues and I never
thought of ourselves as African.Copy !req
86. We were the people of the Nile.Copy !req
87. And then you settle in a town
called Cairo?Copy !req
88. Seems appropriate.Copy !req
89. Mm. Chicken. Egg.Copy !req
90. Was there, uh...Copy !req
91. Was there anyone else around?Copy !req
92. She's not here. Your wife.Copy !req
93. You know where she is?Copy !req
94. No.Copy !req
95. Mr. Ibis, please.Copy !req
96. They're different
when they come back.Copy !req
97. Like any formative
life experience,Copy !req
98. death changes you.Copy !req
99. I'm sure your wife is lovely,Copy !req
100. but she's not the same
person she was.Copy !req
101. Good. You're up!Copy !req
102. So, should we seize the dayCopy !req
103. by the ass before she finds
a new dance partner?Copy !req
104. And then,
where would we be, huh?Copy !req
105. Like floral patterns on a wall.Copy !req
106. Oh!Copy !req
107. What a beautiful day
for a drive, Shadow.Copy !req
108. Did you get a
good night's sleep, huh?Copy !req
109. Time to heal your wounds?
Someone to lick your wounds? Mm?Copy !req
110. I need to find Laura.
She's around here somewhere.Copy !req
111. I don't know why, it's weird,
but I feel it.Copy !req
112. Only humans could've
come up with monogamy.Copy !req
113. An unnatural concept.
Enjoy your life, my boy.Copy !req
114. Fuck it, embrace it,Copy !req
115. exercise neither temperance
nor restraint,Copy !req
116. and leave the past
where it belongs:Copy !req
117. in the past.
Now, forward to St. Louis.Copy !req
118. What's in St. Louis?Copy !req
119. Big city, big money.Copy !req
120. Betty here doesn't run on
butterflies and wishes.Copy !req
121. Money is the most influential
god in America.Copy !req
122. Untouchable asshole,
but his stock never falls.Copy !req
123. How you know Gramma?Copy !req
124. You friends with Ida?Copy !req
125. Who's Ida?Copy !req
126. My mother.Copy !req
127. You look city, so I thought
maybe you came here with her.Copy !req
128. No.Copy !req
129. No. Figures.Copy !req
130. She's not coming
down here.Copy !req
131. So, what, you just
here touristing?Copy !req
132. I came for a man
named Shadow.Copy !req
133. Oh.Copy !req
134. I'm sorry
for your loss.Copy !req
135. This casket is empty.Copy !req
136. They've got her in the back.Copy !req
137. The service is in a day or two.Copy !req
138. Then who do you pray to?Copy !req
139. Reverend Hutchins saysCopy !req
140. that all things are
a matter of ideas.Copy !req
141. And God is just one idea.Copy !req
142. The good reverend enjoys
the theatre.Copy !req
143. - He's quoting Beneatha.
- Who?Copy !req
144. Beneatha grew tired of GodCopy !req
145. getting credit for all the
things the human race achievesCopy !req
146. through stubborn effort.Copy !req
147. Beneatha is the daughter
and nonbelieverCopy !req
148. from A Raisin in the Sun.Copy !req
149. A woman's heart should never be
so hidden in GodCopy !req
150. that she cannot
hear her own truth.Copy !req
151. According to Maya Angelou,Copy !req
152. a woman's heartCopy !req
153. should be hidden in GodCopy !req
154. so that a man has to seek HimCopy !req
155. just to find her.Copy !req
156. My faith is of a different kind.Copy !req
157. Must be, the way your ass is
crisscrossing back and forth,Copy !req
158. across the battlefield.Copy !req
159. Hither, tither, and yonCopy !req
160. in the middle of a war.Copy !req
161. Like you ain't
got a care in the world.Copy !req
162. You need not fear me.Copy !req
163. World would've had
an easier time convincing meCopy !req
164. to join him
if he had not killed Zorya.Copy !req
165. Make sure Wednesday understands.Copy !req
166. So, you crisscrossing and
stepping in the name of love?Copy !req
167. Would you prefer I hide
in a foxhole and waitCopy !req
168. until things
are more to your liking?Copy !req
169. I'd need to carefully considerCopy !req
170. all the pros and the consCopy !req
171. before I could honestly answer
that question.Copy !req
172. So, uh, you two know each other?Copy !req
173. Yes.Copy !req
174. Biblically.Copy !req
175. You're nervous.Copy !req
176. The fuck I am.Copy !req
177. I need you.Copy !req
178. You need me.Copy !req
179. Were you there when
Media died?Copy !req
180. Oh, don't be so
aggressively dense.Copy !req
181. She didn't die.Copy !req
182. She changed into you.Copy !req
183. I still feel her inside me.Copy !req
184. I wonder if the next version of
me will feel me inside of her?Copy !req
185. And then the next version
will feel all of us?Copy !req
186. Don't you wonder
about this stuff?Copy !req
187. Do you...Copy !req
188. You know the difference
between people and animals?Copy !req
189. Hmm?Copy !req
190. People are aware they're
going to die someday.Copy !req
191. And pray to the
Old Gods to stop it.Copy !req
192. But an animal is ignorant.Copy !req
193. I don't get your point.Copy !req
194. My point is MediaCopy !req
195. is not a person or an animal.Copy !req
196. She, unlike you, understood
she's a fucking God.Copy !req
197. I trust you know why
I summoned you.Copy !req
198. Argus.
It's a setback, for sure.Copy !req
199. No!Copy !req
200. No, no.Copy !req
201. No more excuses.Copy !req
202. War is won...Copy !req
203. with what?Copy !req
204. - Information.
- Information.Copy !req
205. Do you know what this is?Copy !req
206. Blindness.Copy !req
207. This is blindness.Copy !req
208. Can you please...Copy !req
209. restore my sight?Copy !req
210. Oh! I've... ah! I've got
a plan, brand new network.Copy !req
211. Oh... I've got a plan!Copy !req
212. I've got a brand new network
that'll be faster than Argus.Copy !req
213. I've got a guy in Silicon
Valley who fucking owes me.Copy !req
214. It'll be a fucking upgrade.
Trust me!Copy !req
215. Hmm...Copy !req
216. I wouldn't recommend
trying to pay with that.Copy !req
217. - Yeah, you got me thinking.
- Ah.Copy !req
218. In 1933, Roosevelt tookCopy !req
219. the United States
off the Gold Standard, right?Copy !req
220. - Yeah, so?
- So, you can't just goCopy !req
221. into a bank and redeem money
for gold or silver.Copy !req
222. You said money is the most
powerful god in America.Copy !req
223. But money isn't actually
worth anything.Copy !req
224. I have a piece of paper, hm?Copy !req
225. But I want this salt shaker.
You have the salt shaker.Copy !req
226. But you're willing
to take my piece of paperCopy !req
227. for your salt shaker.Copy !req
228. Now, why would you do that?Copy !req
229. Because...Copy !req
230. this isn't actually
a piece of paper; it's a story.Copy !req
231. And the story that you've heard
over and over and over again.Copy !req
232. And it's been drummed into you
that this is worth something.Copy !req
233. This is of value.Copy !req
234. No matter what country,
culture, or religion.Copy !req
235. The whole world loves... money.Copy !req
236. The greatest story ever told.Copy !req
237. So, Money.Copy !req
238. We get him on our side,
Mr. World won't mean shit. Oh.Copy !req
239. Grimnir.
What do you want?Copy !req
240. A cup of coffee would be nice.Copy !req
241. Don't you work in Wisconsin?Copy !req
242. I am at every Motel America.Copy !req
243. Entrepreneurship is not
some picnic.Copy !req
244. Mama-ji and her followersCopy !req
245. own more than half the motels
in America.Copy !req
246. And we don't achieve this
by sitting on our assesCopy !req
247. or grifting
about like this one.Copy !req
248. You think America was eager
to hand over her money bagsCopy !req
249. to the hungry,
the tired, and the poor?Copy !req
250. We battle for every
goddamn scrap.Copy !req
251. You love it.Copy !req
252. Victory is sweet
on the tongue,Copy !req
253. and profit is sweet
on the pocket.Copy !req
254. But you miss the real battles,
don't you, Kali, eh?Copy !req
255. The screams and the cries.Copy !req
256. I recall the day
you slew Raktabija.Copy !req
257. The only sound that day was
the whisper of the windCopy !req
258. whistling
through the blood-soaked grass.Copy !req
259. - We had a good time, huh?
- Mm.Copy !req
260. He will be the death of you.Copy !req
261. You know that, right?Copy !req
262. What'd she say?Copy !req
263. Welcome. Please scan finger.Copy !req
264. Eat a giant bag of dicks.Copy !req
265. Uh-huh...Copy !req
266. I...Copy !req
267. hate you so much.Copy !req
268. Hello, friend.Copy !req
269. Hello, friend.Copy !req
270. I always thought
I might see you again.Copy !req
271. Are you here to show me
something new?Copy !req
272. It's time to get back
in the game.Copy !req
273. One-point-one-zero-two
pounds.Copy !req
274. Splenomegaly.Copy !req
275. Majesty.Copy !req
276. Greetings, Thoth.Copy !req
277. You are as lovely as ever.Copy !req
278. Liar.Copy !req
279. This country has not
been kind to my face.Copy !req
280. You are as perfect and
vibrant as the Euphrates.Copy !req
281. Your sister.Copy !req
282. It has been too long.Copy !req
283. Y'all done yet?Copy !req
284. 'Cuz I'm gettin' bored
watchin' this bullshit.Copy !req
285. Why do we fight, Anansi?Copy !req
286. We have known each other
since infancy.Copy !req
287. We should be on the same side.Copy !req
288. I thought we were.
Are we not?Copy !req
289. Now, Anansi.Copy !req
290. She is one of us.
A survivor.Copy !req
291. You old as dirt, bird-beak.Copy !req
292. Why the fuck you didn't ride
the carousel?Copy !req
293. I choose peace.Copy !req
294. Egyptians told tales of
the sacred Book of Thoth,Copy !req
295. which contains
the secrets of the GodsCopy !req
296. and brings misery, pain,
and sufferingCopy !req
297. to anyone who reads it.Copy !req
298. And grants a bird's-eye view
to he...Copy !req
299. .. who writes it.Copy !req
300. I am old as dirt, and I have
seen things as you have.Copy !req
301. Why do you bring this...Copy !req
302. rage to my doorstep?Copy !req
303. You ever notice how traveling
makes your mind roll thunder,Copy !req
304. like a train moving
down the track?Copy !req
305. Except you don't know where the
fuck that mind train is headed.Copy !req
306. And then, all of a sudden,
plop...Copy !req
307. an idea shits in your head.Copy !req
308. And you think that shit
smells good.Copy !req
309. Peace is a beautiful
but shitty idea.Copy !req
310. Only a Goddess can adorn
the sarcophagus of a God.Copy !req
311. So, help me understand what
these New Gods givethCopy !req
312. and what they taketh away.Copy !req
313. Your thirst does not inspireCopy !req
314. our confidence,
only our curiosity.Copy !req
315. I am not a GodCopy !req
316. in the sense that I can
tolerate exploitation,Copy !req
317. oppression, and repression.Copy !req
318. My worshippers know
freedom ain't free.Copy !req
319. They know
the most potent weaponCopy !req
320. of control for the oppressorCopy !req
321. is the mind of the oppressed.Copy !req
322. They know slavery
is not a condition.Copy !req
323. Slavery is a cult.Copy !req
324. Human trafficking is a cult.Copy !req
325. Slavery got a rebrand like
muthafuckin' the Alt Right.Copy !req
326. And... snatched.Copy !req
327. Another one gone.Copy !req
328. Every 30 seconds,
another chocolate-brown,Copy !req
329. caramel, yellow, high-yellow,
red bone, refugee girlCopy !req
330. with melanin in her skin
gets snatched.Copy !req
331. Every... thirty... seconds.Copy !req
332. And to make matters worse,Copy !req
333. these dazzling new plantation
owners built a pipelineCopy !req
334. to take our children
from school to prisonCopy !req
335. quicker than a cut
can bleed.Copy !req
336. And the lucky ones go
from school to the NFL,Copy !req
337. where they don't even
let them niggahs take a knee.Copy !req
338. They've been programmed
from birthCopy !req
339. with shitty food options,
contaminated drinking water,Copy !req
340. gun violence, police brutality,Copy !req
341. and trauma after trauma
after trauma.Copy !req
342. PTSD? No therapy.Copy !req
343. Missing? No Amber Alert.Copy !req
344. Alone?Copy !req
345. Vulnerable.Copy !req
346. Snatched.Copy !req
347. Another one gone.Copy !req
348. I hear you, Brother.Copy !req
349. And I hear them.Copy !req
350. I hear each voice,Copy !req
351. and I write each name.Copy !req
352. We have lived
long enough to knowCopy !req
353. these troubles are timeless.Copy !req
354. Suffering is not sacred.Copy !req
355. And moral law is final.Copy !req
356. Sooner or later
they all lay before me.Copy !req
357. War need not be the answer.Copy !req
358. My Queen.Copy !req
359. The world assumes white people
are naturally good.Copy !req
360. So when something bad happens,Copy !req
361. it's a good person doing
a bad thing.Copy !req
362. They assume black people...Copy !req
363. are naturally bad,Copy !req
364. so when something good happens,
it's only a matter of timeCopy !req
365. before
that animal's true natureCopy !req
366. rears its ugly head.Copy !req
367. How much longer
can we afford to wait?Copy !req
368. You keep track of days,
numbering the years for scribesCopy !req
369. that record human history.Copy !req
370. Do you see progress?Copy !req
371. I count 1, 2, 3
African Gods in this room,Copy !req
372. and two of them want
to exercise restraint,Copy !req
373. and let the donkey-work continueCopy !req
374. while you live your best life!Copy !req
375. War is upon us!Copy !req
376. An old white
lady is dead.Copy !req
377. Wednesday avenges
Zorya Vechernyaya,Copy !req
378. but if it was
a dead black lady,Copy !req
379. like this sweet old soul,Copy !req
380. Czernobog's hammer...Copy !req
381. would not swing.Copy !req
382. Your words move me, Anansi.Copy !req
383. You see me.Copy !req
384. You and Ibis see the Goddess,Copy !req
385. the Queen.Copy !req
386. These men today look
right through me.Copy !req
387. This country has done things
to us.Copy !req
388. We have done things to us.Copy !req
389. So, what do you propose?Copy !req
390. I propose we have a drink.Copy !req
391. A King needs a Queen.Copy !req
392. The death of Argus
left an opening.Copy !req
393. Argus was a relic,Copy !req
394. a desiccating, necrotising,Copy !req
395. geriatric, organic sack
of redundancies.Copy !req
396. CCTV?Copy !req
397. Fuck that noise!Copy !req
398. I fart out a coltan-encased
microchipCopy !req
399. in cherry pink
and they line up for miles.Copy !req
400. Miles!Copy !req
401. To carry trackers,
give up their locations,Copy !req
402. bank numbers,Copy !req
403. fucking facial IDs!Copy !req
404. An endless catalogue
of every fuck,Copy !req
405. every bite,
every disgusting nose hair.Copy !req
406. Every dirty little secret.Copy !req
407. Every whisper they thought
no one could hear.Copy !req
408. But I digress.Copy !req
409. What I'm here to discuss...Copy !req
410. is this.Copy !req
411. Argus had a lotta fucking eyes.Copy !req
412. But...Copy !req
413. I have given of my flesh
to my disciplesCopy !req
414. and they have returned
the favor one-thousand fold.Copy !req
415. And now?Copy !req
416. Eyes are...Copy !req
417. You get?Copy !req
418. You ken?Copy !req
419. You comprende?Copy !req
420. About time.Copy !req
421. - Now what are you doing?
- What we came to do.Copy !req
422. Candy?Copy !req
423. Oh, yes. I want a gold bar
and some nuggets.Copy !req
424. Credit or debit?Copy !req
425. - Oh, credit.
- Name?Copy !req
426. Odin. The Alfather. Never
failed to pay for my candy.Copy !req
427. Your name?Copy !req
428. Oh, he's just my assistant.Copy !req
429. Shadow Moon.Copy !req
430. There is no account
under the name Shadow Moon.Copy !req
431. That's not the name
on his birth certificate.Copy !req
432. There is no account
under the name Shadow Moon.Copy !req
433. No debit, no credit.Copy !req
434. Oh, so, no debit, no credit.
Not even a fucking car loan?Copy !req
435. What are you,
some off-the-grid freak?Copy !req
436. I never had any need for it.
Laura did it all.Copy !req
437. Do you know how much
Money hates that?Copy !req
438. - Access denied.
- No.Copy !req
439. This man is not relevant. He's
not looking for an audience.Copy !req
440. He's just the hired help.Copy !req
441. Access denied.Copy !req
442. I am the resurrection
and the life.Copy !req
443. Those who believe in me will
live, even though they die.Copy !req
444. I am the resurrection
and the life.Copy !req
445. Those who believe in me
will live, even though they die.Copy !req
446. What does He give you?Copy !req
447. Jesus?Copy !req
448. It's either I pray
or I run five miles.Copy !req
449. And I can't run no more,Copy !req
450. jacked up my leg
in Division One, so...Copy !req
451. I guess he gives me comfort.Copy !req
452. A God should provide
more than comfort.Copy !req
453. He does.Copy !req
454. Community.Copy !req
455. Feeling like there's a point.Copy !req
456. I mean, I'm still mad
about my leg,Copy !req
457. but if I hadn't messed it up,Copy !req
458. I would probably be in college,Copy !req
459. and instead I was here with
Gramma while she was sick, so...Copy !req
460. maybe it was meant to be.Copy !req
461. And maybe I don't gotta be mad
about it, you know?Copy !req
462. Gramma prayed for patience:Copy !req
463. "Lord, like Job,Copy !req
464. let me be patient."Copy !req
465. Job was wealthy.Copy !req
466. Did her Lord
give her wealth?Copy !req
467. This is Cairo!Copy !req
468. I don't think money's
got our address.Copy !req
469. Last week, I was
reading this blog,Copy !req
470. says how in America
the black woman makesCopy !req
471. 60 cents for every dollar
a white man makes,Copy !req
472. and Gramma's all: "Well,
here in Cairo, honey,Copy !req
473. a black woman's lucky if she's
got 2 cents to rub together,Copy !req
474. and even if she's got
a pocket full of nickels,Copy !req
475. that don't mean that
that money's gonna make herCopy !req
476. suck a bedsheet up her ass
and fall asleep on a cloud."Copy !req
477. And then she laughed real hard.Copy !req
478. She was pretty sick,
but she laughed all the time.Copy !req
479. She never let anger or jealousy
guide her.Copy !req
480. Had her church,
had her community.Copy !req
481. She took care of me and Jamarr
when didn't nobody else want us.Copy !req
482. She was content.Copy !req
483. He was not content.Copy !req
484. He was a rebel, a troublemaker.Copy !req
485. They say he died for your sins,
but that is not the truth.Copy !req
486. He died because he angered
the men in power.Copy !req
487. He refused to be cowed...Copy !req
488. controlled.Copy !req
489. And now look
at the power he wields,Copy !req
490. the worship he commands.Copy !req
491. He was onto something.Copy !req
492. I'm Ruby.Copy !req
493. Ruby Goodchild.Copy !req
494. It's good
to meet you, Ruby.Copy !req
495. Shadow, will you just buy
some fucking candy? Huh?Copy !req
496. Do you see me trying?
I mean, look at this.Copy !req
497. Huh? They're not gonna sell me
any fucking candy!Copy !req
498. Mama-ji just might kill you.
She already wants to kill me.Copy !req
499. You know what? Fuck this.Copy !req
500. Why me?Copy !req
501. - Oh, not that again.
- Yeah, this again.Copy !req
502. - Will you just tell me?
- Whimsy.Copy !req
503. Why don't you just give me
a fucking answer?Copy !req
504. Come on.Copy !req
505. - You really want to know?
- Yeah.Copy !req
506. You really want to know
why I picked you?Copy !req
507. Just tell me.Copy !req
508. Well, I picked you
because I needed someoneCopy !req
509. with nothing to live for,
with nothing to go home for,Copy !req
510. with no one to miss him
or love himCopy !req
511. or give a shit
if he lives or dies.Copy !req
512. That's why I picked you,
because you literally meanCopy !req
513. nothing to any living person.Copy !req
514. Or any dead one either,
as far as I know.Copy !req
515. You have no value, no worth
in this world or the next.Copy !req
516. Happy?Copy !req
517. Damn.Copy !req
518. Good.Copy !req
519. See, I've been here
trying to make it all add up.Copy !req
520. - Oh.
- Everything since we met.Copy !req
521. Oh, really?
How's that going for you?Copy !req
522. That little hamster
in the wheel in your brainCopy !req
523. make it out yet?Copy !req
524. Well, the...Copy !req
525. the only thing
that makes any sense,Copy !req
526. the only explanation that fits
all the facts, is that...Copy !req
527. ..I do have value to you.Copy !req
528. See, I don't know why.Copy !req
529. You don't want me
to know why but...Copy !req
530. ..you need me.Copy !req
531. Don't you?Copy !req
532. I am handing you the future
on a motherfucking platter.Copy !req
533. I'm gonna need you
to cut that edge pronto,Copy !req
534. and put some
fucking garnish on it.Copy !req
535. Show me.Copy !req
536. I never did see a GodCopy !req
537. more effectively argue
his own obsolescence.Copy !req
538. What the fuck
are you doing here?Copy !req
539. Well, go on then.Copy !req
540. He's waiting.Copy !req
541. Show him.Copy !req
542. No?Copy !req
543. Then allow me.Copy !req
544. Hello, friend.Copy !req
545. Hello, friend.Copy !req
546. I was literally...Copy !req
547. your only friend.Copy !req
548. You lonely fuck.Copy !req
549. I brought you
into the presence of God.Copy !req
550. It looks like he's
forgotten about you.Copy !req
551. Mistake.Copy !req
552. Fuck!Copy !req
553. Wanna buy some candy? Candy?Copy !req
554. There isn't a need
to purchase candy.Copy !req
555. I retired a God today.Copy !req
556. Access granted.Copy !req
557. You killed Argus.Copy !req
558. And you killed Zorya.Copy !req
559. I am sorry about Zorya.Copy !req
560. But when you strike
with lightning,Copy !req
561. you should
expect consequences.Copy !req
562. Mess with my people,Copy !req
563. expect disproportionate
consequences.Copy !req
564. You got your man back.Copy !req
565. It's the principle.Copy !req
566. Hello?Copy !req
567. Hello?Copy !req
568. I'd like to pay.Copy !req
569. I'd like to pay.Copy !req
570. Have you seen what's
happened to the world?Copy !req
571. It isn't 5s, 10s, or 20s
anymore. It isn't cash or gold.Copy !req
572. It's zeros and ones,
digitized and encrypted,Copy !req
573. sent down fiber-optic cables
at the speed of lightCopy !req
574. to accounts at banks
with no physical location.Copy !req
575. Money loves profit.Copy !req
576. And war is
always profitable.Copy !req
577. It also moves people more
than anything else.Copy !req
578. It inflames their passions,Copy !req
579. something you would know
nothing about.Copy !req
580. And the more passionate
they get,Copy !req
581. the more they spend,
spend, spend.Copy !req
582. You know that, Money.Copy !req
583. You sit at the crossing
of two rivers,Copy !req
584. waiting for a steamship
that will never come.Copy !req
585. Your kind aren't dying;
they're dead.Copy !req
586. Okay, enough -
I'm honored to haveCopy !req
587. the big dogs in the God game
begging at my table.Copy !req
588. But money doesn't make
emotional investmentsCopy !req
589. or invest in emotional entities.Copy !req
590. Too much risk
in such ventures.Copy !req
591. Not enough opportunity.Copy !req
592. You could always
hedge your bets.Copy !req
593. There's no deal here for you
today, gentlemen.Copy !req
594. Money stays in the bank.Copy !req
595. This is agreeable.Copy !req
596. What a sad waste of capital.Copy !req
597. I'm gonna win this one.Copy !req
598. People like me more
than they like you.Copy !req
599. I prefer to be feared.Copy !req
600. I'm not your enemy.Copy !req