1<br > He has just left an early breakfast meeting--very early--with three<br > men he s never met before. He s never heard of the men, in tact, and he<br > planned to blow offbreakthst until his partner told him he shou d go,<br > because the men are important and potendal/y useful. He trusts his<br > partner, who used to work for their agency. They are agents, all three of<br > the men at breakfast, but agents who made it very clear that they pre-<br > fer never to be called agents. He is already confusing and forgetting<br > their names even though , ~<br > , the men s main purpose In coming to town,<br >they strongly suggested, was to meet him and tell him they would love<br >to be in business with him. That s the phrase these people always use:<br >"We would love to be in business with you," said in a breathy, solemn,<br >confidential way that makes it sound profound and salacious. He is<br >walking up the Avenue of the Americas, just south of Forty-seventh<br >Street, now thinking ofahnost nothing but the morning sunlight pour-<br >ing over from the right, making the line of proud, gray, dumb, boxy<br >giants on the left--Snfith Barney, Time-Life, McGraw-Hill, News<br >Corporation--prettier than they desmwe to be.<br > A pair of mounted police walking past him, about to make the turn<br >auto Forty-seventh Street, snags his attention for an instant, the very-<br >
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