Unlike the madder schemes of Max and Herman,
this optimistic ending bears some recognizable relation to the real world: not only has the past become integrated with the present, but the invented world of Rushmore has become wide enough to encompass our own.
Given that another dividend payment by my largest holding Royal Dutch Shell and some of my interest -
bearing positions are still due at the
end of the year, I'm now somehow
optimistic that I can reach my income goal for 2017.