 He could see on the page, in those scant responses, how financial power can outweigh political power, doesn't necessarily need to bend to it, in a way that's kind of unfathomable for those of us without sprawling financial empires. This way of power addressing power, you know, page after page after page, was something that I had never seen in any history book, you know, and that was all rhetoric. That was all in the language.