The banker reached inside his jacket and withdrew a piece of paper, 
folded in thirds, from his breast pocket. "You may wish to peruse this 
brochure," he said to Bud, and to the brochure itself he rattled off something 
in an unfamiliar tongue. As Bud took it from the banker's hand, the blank page 
generated a nice animated color logo and music. The logo developed into a 
peacock. Beneath it, a video presentation commenced, hosted by a 
similar-looking gent—sort of Indian looking but sort of Arab too. 
" 'The Parsis welcome you to Peacock Bank,' " he said.