the testament
long before our father died, the four us had already received our inheritance we wouldn't need to find a lawyer because one had been provided for almost by coincidence to me he left one share of his single-mindedness one share of the passion that goes with it one share of his violence one share of his fighting spirit and the faintest glimmer of his gift of gab to our eldest he left one share of his drive one share of his salesmanship the full share of his insecurities and one share of his instinct to survive to our younger sister he left one share of his violence, the full share of his madness, and more of his rage than all four of us combined could ever have contained and to you, my brother, our advocate and the self-appointed manager of his estate he left one share of his salesmanship the full share of his craftiness the full share of his miserliness, the meanness of spirit by which to appropriate all four shares of his means the full share of the cognit...