I know this has likely been mentioned before, but I do not doubt that the diamonds, while also a key structural element, were inspired or requested for inclusion because they cement the legacy of Jamie Diamond in no unsublte way. But I'm still there for them, either way.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
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