Bab 111: Material riches are perishable

Ickapoo desires wealth. However material wealth is transient, fleeting, only spiritual wealth endures.

There's a scene in "The Queen of Versailles," Lauren Greenfield's documentary, in which the subject, Jackie Siegel, is travelling to Binghampton, New York to visit the neighborhood in which she grew up. After getting off the airplane and making a stop in Elmira, she and her children find themselves at a Hertz Rent-a-Car counter. First, she explains to the clerk that flying commercial for the first time was bizarre. Second, she asks the clerk for the name of her driver. The clerk can only stare at her in stunned disbelief.