Atlas sighed, then died

摘要

Strange how the best advice you've always followed all your life and for good solid practical reasons, such as never playing poker with a man named "Doc" or responding to e-mails promising riches from a former Nigerian government official, all of a sudden goes right out the window. All common sense and apocryphal anecdotal horror stories go by the wayside when it involves deep, close personal friends and friends of friends and loyalties and trusts generated through years together in the trenches fighting the battles we all fight together daily.