March 31, 2004
Charles Dickens Explains It All, Part 2: Enron

"Speculation is a round game; the players see little or nothing of their cards at first starting; gains may be great--and so may losses. The run of luck went against Mr Nickleby. A mania prevailed, a bubble burst, four stock-brokers took villa residences at Florence, four hundred nobodies were ruined, and among them Mr Nickleby."

- still from Nicholas Nickleby, still 1838