“Why would the queen invest capital here?” A question flew from my mouth to mask my stupidity. “What for? Ah, Mr. Minke, what does it mean to be a queen in these mad times? Without capital she too would be the servant of capital. Even a king is best off being a king of capital.” “But the teachers all say we are entering the age of modernity, not the age of capital.” “They only half know what’s going on, Mr. Minke.
