When dollars were first printed in the United States, they weren’t considered money. They were Promissary Notes backed by gold or silver coins. Now it seems, cowry shells (the shell most commonly used worldwide as currency) may have more value than the once almighty dollar.
I feel like sitting on a beach and watching a pretty sunset.
Bernard Madoff arrested over alleged $50 billion fraud (Reuters)
The last time as ever i see him, poor thing, was with my own blessed motherly eyes,
Sitting as good as gold in the gutter, a playing at making little dirt pies.
Poem from The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
A wind has started a little whirlpool
of sand where the carpet ought to be,
and shells lie
by the preposterous feet
of that woman who frets me, annihilates me,
O’ she will kill me yet.
Poem from Hilda Doolittle, Halcyon
