Wednesday, September 20, 2006

How Dare You Pay Me What You Owe Me?

Here's one for my buddies over at the debtor-creditor blog:

When a Yemeni shopkeeper says that he can tell Americans do not trust him because they always insist on paying immeditely when they buy something, you have to know how important it is to people in that region to believe that debt forges a relationship.


Lawrence Rosen in the London Review of Books, page 28, 7 September 2006
(reviewing Jason Burke, On the Road to Kandahar)

Fn: My all-wise friend Joel says it works for small-time lawyehrs, too. If the lawyer pays you in full, it means he is getting ready to decamp.

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