Status Updates From The Lehman Trilogy

there on Wall Street where they seem to sell /everything: iron, fabric, coal /
every type of thing you can imagine; in reality, /there's no trace of it. /
There's no iron there's no fabric there's no coal. /
There's nothing there. /

EMANUEL: And yet, a miracle everything is there./
There's no iron, but the word: IRON, /
no fabric, but the word: FABRIC, /
no coal, but the word: COAL.
A temple of words.

Mayer doesn't respond. /
He didn't tell him that when he arrived from Germamy /
- from Rimpar, Bavaria - everyone stared at his shoes. /
If they look at your feet /
it means that you come from far away. /
He could have told his son that. /
But he didn't. /
He just smiled. /
These days he speaks very little.