《股票作手回忆录·第一章·少年与行情板》第20节
A fellow told me the originator cleaned up seventy thousand dollars net, and his agents made their expenses and their pay besides. He played that game several times all over the country, punishing the bigger bucket shops of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis. One of his favorite stocks was Western Union, because it was so easy to move a semiactive stock like that a few points up or down. His agents bought it at a certain figure, sold at two points profit, went short and took three points more. By the way, I read the other day that that man died, poor and obscure. If he had died in 1896 he would have got at least a column on the first page of every New York paper. As it was he got two lines on the fifth.
注释摘要
在这部半自传体小说里，主角拉里·利文斯顿是以第一人称讲故事的。但我们必须时刻记住，这本书的真正作者是财经记者埃德温·勒菲弗，他在1920年代对杰西·利弗莫尔做了深度采访，然后把这位传奇投机家的经历加工成了一部文学经典。所以，当故事讲到“我听一个家伙说”的时候，这既是利文斯顿的叙述，也是勒菲弗借主角之口安排的文学收尾。主角在这段话里讲了一个精明的纽约交易所会…