[basil ransome-davies]

Roger's god who cannot disguise his emotions sounds like Mailer's fallible, 'existential' god. I sympathise, since I always lacked the sophistication to mask my feelings & had to forswear a lucrative life as a poker honcho (that's apart from the deathbed promise to my mother, of course).

But I still lose if I play cards for imaginary stakes online. How does that work?