![]() He’s one of the second-generation creative guys who gets his picture taken with some starlet on his arm, as newscasters talk about what good news it would be for Mori’s stock if he were to marry a studio-contracted actress. Mason’s heart stutters that he’s been picked to spearhead a new version. I hope it does great things for the company it’s been a while since we had a new version.” “Paul Whitcover already told us-” (Mason thinks, Who?) “-and it sounds like a marvelous idea. This new project is news to him, too, but he doesn’t think stockholders want to hear that. He wishes stockholders were a little less enthusiastic about showing support for the company.) The point is to ease the grieving process, not to provide arm candy. (Mason will never know why anyone brings their doll out in public like this. Harris closer, and after too long, she smiles. “I hear you’re starting a new project,” says Harris. (He’ll hand it to the Aesthetics department-it’s getting harder to tell the difference between people with plastic surgery and the dolls.) Memorial dolls take a second longer, because they have to process the little cognitive disconnect of humor, and because they’re programmed to think that interrupting is rude. People chuckle politely just before he finishes the punch line. He’s done enough high-profile work that Mori wants him to actually mingle, and he spends the cocktail hour being pushed from one group to another, shaking hands, telling the same three inoffensive anecdotes over and over. (He skipped one year because he was sick, and two Officers from HR came to his door with a company doctor to confirm it. ![]() Mori’s made Mason rich enough that he owns a bespoke tux and drives to the Dinner in a car whose property tax is more than his father made in a year of course he goes. The Mori Annual Stockholder Dinner is a little slice of hell that employees are encouraged to attend, for morale. THIS MESSAGE SENT FROM MORI: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE, LOOKING OUT FOR YOU.
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