"Good." She smiled wickedly. "Because if you do I'll make sure you're on every boiler-room investment house hot list from now until the collapse of Western civilization." III This is the part of the story where most narrators would mention that they slept fitfully and had prophetic dreams about the past and future melding together. I'm supposed to tell you all about the dreams, using cryptic terms that will confuse you until things come together later. It's the way you know the stuff you're reading is art.