"After Monarch and D’Courtney become Reich, Incorporated, you watch me eat up the rest ... the small ones ... the fleas. Case and Umbrel on Venus. Eaten!" Reich brought his fist down on a torso-shaped side table and smashed it. "United Transaction on Mars. Mashed and eaten!" He crushed a delicate chair. "The GCI Combine on Ganymede, Callisto, and Io ... Titan Chemical & Atomics ... And then the smaller lice: the backbiters, the haters, the Guild of Peepers, the moralists, the patriots ... Eaten! Eaten! Eaten!" He pounded his palm against a marble nude until it toppled from its pedestal and shattered.