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WORDS: ED DONNELL |
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| If I was a billionaire I'd get pictures published in the tabloids of me hobbling around my mansion, feet cut to ribbons, wearing a pair of slippers made from clusters of diamonds. I can imagine the readers, poor people with faces like smacked arses, kissing their teeth and slowly shaking their heads. How the other half live eh?
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Not having to work again would open up time enough to pursue my lifelong quest for the perfect piece of cake. Once a week I would be driven to my huge fortified complex in the middle of the countryside, not unlike the Laboratioire Garnier I imagine. Wearing a white coat and carrying a clip board, I stroll around while my thousands of employees quietly mix buttercream and present me with samples of new sponge textures.
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Monuments to my decadence could be seen in every major city. I'd buy a piece of prime real estate, somewhere in the West End, or Manhatten or downtown Tokyo, and erect lifesize versions of a Fisher Price garage. This primary coloured monster would only have room for three cars, but would have the most elaborate system of lifts and ramps for getting cars in and out.
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I want money to waste. I want money to burn.
I want to buy a painting by Gary Hume or one of those other lucky artists,
invite them round for dinner, answer the door wearing slippers made out
of their paintings then change back into my diamond slippers to kick their
arses.
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