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But one thing was quite clear...." {Sol Bloom, chief of the Midway} wrote. "{B}eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.
Erik Larson The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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In Erik Larson's "The Devil in the White City," the experiences of Sol Bloom, the chief of the Midway, reveal a profound perspective on wealth and fulfillment. Bloom reflects on his life, conveying that financial struggles did not trouble him because he had started from nothing and enjoyed a rich journey filled with memorable experiences. The essence of his message highlights that life is not solely measured by material assets but...

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He broke prevailing rules of casual intimacy: He stood too close, stared too hard, touched too much and long. And women adored him for it.
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the club had provided for music was a lone pianist who had no idea what kind of piece might accompany such an exotic dance. Bloom thought a moment, hummed a tune, then plinked it out on the keyboard one note at a time: Over the next century this tune and its variations would be deployed in a succession of mostly cheesy movies, typically as an accompaniment to the sinuous emergence of a cobra from a basket. It would also drive the schoolyard lyric, "And they wear no pants in the southern part of France." Bloom regretted his failure to copyright the tune. The royalties would have run into the millions.
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the club had provided for music was a lone pianist who had no idea what kind of piece might accompany such an exotic dance. Bloom thought a moment, hummed a tune, then plinked it out on the keyboard one note at a time: Over the next century this tune and its variations would be deployed in a succession of mostly cheesy movies, typically as an accompaniment to the sinuous emergence of a cobra from a basket. It would also drive the schoolyard lyric, "And they wear no pants in the southern part of France." Bloom regretted his failure to copyright the tune. The royalties would have run into the millions.
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All were wealthy and at the peaks of their careers, but all also bore the scars of nineteenth-century life, their pasts full of wrecked rail cars, fevers, and the premature deaths of loved ones.
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At first alienists describes this condition as moral insanity and those who exhibited the disorder as moral imbeciles. They later adopted the term psychopath.
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