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Margot, the friend, from Melbourne, had always referred to him as “a Lombard,” which Cayce had at first thought might be a reference somehow to his Belgian-ness, until learning, upon finally asking, that it was Margot’s acronym for “Loads of money but a real dickhead.”
“You’re in advertising? What do you do?” “Look sorted, go to clubs and wine bars and chat people up. While I’m at it, I mention a clients product, of course favorably. I try to attract attention while I’m doing it, but attention of a favorable sort.
Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer. But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.
