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Tomorrow's
Wall Street Journal
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In another story, you meet the devil, a
handsome middle-aged businessman, dressed in "a two-hundred-dollar
gray shark-skin suit, forty-five-dollar shoes, a custom-made
shirt and a twenty-five-dollar iron-gray Italian silk
tie."
...He
knocks the door of Martin Chessell and offers him a copy
of "everyone's desire and dream", Tomorrow's Wall Street
Journal.
..."What
price?" Doris demanded, precise, businesslike and to the
point.
..."The
usual price. The price never changes. A human soul."
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"Why? Why a human soul? What do you do with them? Collect
them? Frame them?"
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"They have their uses, oh yes, indeed. It would make for
a long, complicated explanation, but we value them."
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"I don't believe I have a soul," Martin said bluntly.
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"Then what loss if you sell it to me? To sell what you
do not own without deceiving the purchaser, that is good
business, Martin-all profit and no loss."
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