Diary - 10/26/08: Old man Genesee's house burnt down. Went thru the ashes, only found a few of the effects. Btwn the fire, rain & liquor, not much salvage value. Just scraps of paper. Mad/hatter stuff. Articles + Bible verses with scribbles over it all (Could be G's?) Hard to imagine, him once an educ'd man. Economist?! 00's of burnt tin cans (cream corn) in the ashes. No sign of G himself. Just a burnt map, with the Turks/Caicos isles circled (??) Saved the scraps w his jottings for the kids. (Attach'd.)

Notes On The Technicolor Economy, 2001-2015.

G41:14- Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph & immediately he was brought from prison. After he had shaved & changed his clothes, he came in front of Pharaoh.  * Pharaoh = Great House. Poss = White Hse? (Note/Self: Who Joseph/Joe? Joseph Campbell? Check Greenspan bio - possible bro Joe? In prison?)

15-24 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I had a dream, and no one can tell me what it means. I hear you can. In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile. Suddenly, 7 nice-looking, well-fed cows came up from the river to graze among the reeds. 7 other cows came up behind them. These cows were scrawny, very sick, and thin. I've never seen such sickly cows! The thin, sickly cows ate up the 7 well-fed ones. Even though they had eaten them, no one could tell. They looked just as sick as before. Then I woke up. I told this to the magicians, but no one could say what it meant."  * Take me to the river, Phara-oh-ho-tep. G15-24 hi-lites apparent problem - No nutr'l value in fat cows. (Note/S = See Mildred, Wise woman for confirm'n of possibility. Caution: M's wandering hands.) "Magicians," possible Archaic = "Eco advisors." That'd figure. Crosseyed & clueless, those Fk'ers.

25-31 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The 7 good cows are 7 years. The 7 thin, sickly cows that came up behind them are 7 years. 7 years are coming with plenty of food. After them will come 7 years of famine. People will forget that there was plenty of food in Egypt, and the famine will ruin the land. People won't remember, the coming famine will be so severe."  * Huh. People forget. "Same as it ever was." Q - Where's David Byrne lately? Has hide-out? Cream corn stash? Prophet? (Note/S: Call DB.)

33-37- "Pharaoh should look for a wise & intelligent man and put him in charge of Egypt. Appoint supervisors to take a fifth of Egypt's harvest during the 7 good years. Have them collect all the food & store up grain under Pharaoh's control, to be kept for the cities. A reserve supply for our country during the 7 years of famine. Then the land will not be ruined."  * Pharaoh & all his servants liked the idea. Yeah, I'll just bet they did. Possible Plan: 20% p.a. X 7 yrs = 140%. Divide by 7 lean yrs = damn skinny rations @20% of norm. Note/S: Submit 'One-Fifth' savings rate piece. Poss pub'r - The Fed? W-Hse? Who to supervise implement'n? Al G?) (Postscrpt - W-Hse distinctly did NOT like idea. Got told to "go shopping." + "F*ck Gore.")

46-49 Joseph was 30 years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh. He left Pharaoh & traveled all around Egypt. During the 7 good years the land produced large harvests. Joseph collected all the food grown during those 7 years & put it in the cities. In each city he put the food from the fields around it. Joseph stored up grain in huge quantities like the sand on the seashore. He had so much that he finally gave up keeping any records because he couldn't measure it all.  * Ha. Our fatcats ate the fat cows. Yeah, Don't worry 'bout the Gov't... they stole so much, gave up on recordkpg too. Poss way forwrd - sell local food to cities? 2 chances of that - fat & slim. (DB says other T-Heads now out of pic. Nice.)

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