Bow to the greater power. He took the glass of sambuca Signora Carnevale held out to him. So enjoy yourself. Take the glass of sambuca that Ermelino holds out. Pointless to struggle.
Resistance is futile.
One day Theodore Wuttke envisions the Reichsmarschall of the Third Reich's Luftwaffe descending on the curious, doorless old elevator of the Handover Trust building where he works. The director of Handover Trust, the organization charged with the handover of East Germany's public assets to private, presumably Western investors, follows. Only the simultaneity is fantastical, for all of these men did work out of this same building. And that's not all. Readers may often find themselves more admiring this book than loving it, and non-German readers should anticipate encountering quite a few literary and historical figures with whom they are unfamiliar.