29.04.04

A belt with two hundred pounds of gold in it

The guiding words for Michael Lewis´ Moneyball are from John Ruskin, Unto this last:

Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was afterwards found at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking - had he the gold? or the gold him?

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