The father of this pleasant grandfather, of the neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant, was a horny-skinned, two-legged, money-getting species of spider who spun webs to catch unwary flies and retired into holes until they were entrapped. The name of this old pagan's god was Compound Interest.--Charles Dickens
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DEBTOR IN POSEIDON
Plato's spawn cold ivyed eyes
Snare truth in bone and globe.
Harlequins coin pointless games
Sneer jokes in Fiat's robe.
Two women weep, dame scarlet screen
Sheds sudden usurious rain,
Whilst dark in dream the austerity queen
Knows every human pain.
[King Crimson--Wake Of Poseidon
Modified lyrics by WilliamBanzai7]
"Credit is a system whereby a person who cannot pay gets another person who cannot pay to guarantee that he can pay."--Charles Dickens
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