Why isn’t all chocolate sold as gelt? What happy Scrooges we become as we listen to a handful’s muted clinking, carefully pick out the first one to eat, find the foil seam, peel one side back, then peel back the other, see each bas relief twice—always first in metallic gold, then in chocolate—place the coin in our mouths, bite down, chew, swallow. Economists call this deflation; I call it bliss. Edible coins are the only currency I trust.
True Wealth
Jasper Nighthawk
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