Kurt is a lawyer, one of those men who lives in one state, works in another, and vacations in a third. These men read the Wall Street Journal and fold it into a neat rectangle when they are done. These men wear French collars and read mysteries that always get solved at the very last minute; they hate ambiguity. Their careers are all about pretending to know things they don’t really know that well. Knowledge is power, including knowledge a person pretends to have.