Malcolm Chamberlain, Capitol

&& all around me are familiar faces ' '
WORN OUT PLACES, WORN OUT FACES >>



&& bright and early for the daily races ' '
GOING NOWHERE, GOING NOWHERE >>

ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MALCOLM IS THAT HE DOESN'T REALLY LIKE PEOPLE. NOT REALLY, ANYWAY. SURE, HE'LL GO ON AND ON ABOUT HOW GREAT THEY LOOK AND HOW SPLENDID THEY MIGHT BE WHEN IN ALL ACTUALITY THEY AREN'T, BUT IN THE END IT DOESN'T MATTER. SIMPLY BECAUSE HE DOESN'T LIKE THEM. WHY DOESN'T HE LIKE THEM? BECAUSE THEY ARE INFERIOR. AND THERE IT IS: THE FIRST THING YOU SHOULD KNOW WHEN YOU'RE AROUND MALCOLM.

ANOTHER IMPORTANT PIECE OF ADVICE: DO NOT MAKE HIM YOUR ENEMY. YOU MIGHT THOUGHT BECAUSE HE IS A FILTHY RICH BUSINESS MAN THAT HE WON'T GO OUT AND GET HIS HANDS DIRTY...AND YOU WOULD'VE BEEN RIGHT. HE WON'T KILL YOU. HE'LL FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN. BEING WHO HE IS, HE HAS NO NEED FOR MANIPULATION OR PERSUASION. HIS MONEY IS THE ONE THING HE NEEDS TO HAVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE TURN ON HIS SIDE.

HIS EXCESSIVE DRINKING REALLY DOES MESS WITH HIM A LOT, JUSTIFIED WITH HIS CONSTANT INTEMPERANCE WITH DASHING FIGMENT OF MIND, DAYLE. OTHER THAN HIS DANGEROUSLY POTENT HALLUCINATION, MALCOLM'S RESPONDENCE TO LIQUOR HAS ALSO LEFT HIM WITH ONLY ENOUGH BUSINESS PROFIT TO PURCHASE IMPORTED PROSTITUTES MUCH TO DAYLE'S DISMAY, RESULTING IN BITTER CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO DESPITE THE LIGHT-HEARTED AND PLATONIC, YET ONE-SIDED LOVE PROVIDED ON DAYLE'S PART.

ALBEIT THEIR INNUMERABLE DIFFERENCES, MALCOLM AND THE EGO HAVE JUST AS MANY SIMILARITIES TO BALANCE IT OUT. BOTH HAVE EXPRESSED A VERY PROFOUND DISSATISFACTION WITH LIFE; MALCOLM FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, AND DAYLE, SIMPLY BECAUSE HE IS STUCK WITH MALCOLM.

&& their tears are filling up their glasses ' '