The Cairo Complex

“But BEING PAID,–what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! How cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Gotta let it show, I love the dough, hey
I love the dough, more than you know.”
Notorious BIG, “I Love the Dough”

“And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered”.
Ernest Hemingway, A letter to his parents circa WWI

“I hope I die before I get old”.
The Who, ‘My Generation’