Wim Helsen nodigt interessante gasten uit voor een gesprek over hun favoriete tekst. Jan Jaap van der Wal kiest voor een fragment uit The Social Network van Aaron Sorkin.
M: “Your date looks so familiar to me.”
S: “She looks familiar to a lot of people.”
M: “What do you mean?“
S: “A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to buy his wife some lingerie, but he’s too embarrassed to shop for it in a department store. He comes up with an idea for a high-end place that doesn’t make you feel like a pervert. He gets a 40 000-dollar bank loan, borrows another 40 000 from his in-laws, opens a store and calls it Victoria’s Secret. He makes a half million dollars his first year. He starts a catalog, opens three more stores, and after five years he sells the company to Leslie Wexner and The Limited for 4 million dollars. Happy ending, right? Except two years later, the company’s worth 500 million dollars and Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate bridge. Poor guy just wanted to buy his wife a pair of thigh-highs.“
M: “Was that a parable?”
S: “My date is a Victoria’s Secret Model, that’s why she looks familiar to you.
Don’t be impressed by all of this.”
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