It usually isn't this literal. Tonight on The Money Programme, we're going to look at money. Lots of it. On film, and in the studio. Some of it in nice piles, others in lovely clanky bits of loose change. Some of it neatly counted into fat little hundreds. Delicate fivers stuffed into bulging wallets.
Nice crisp clean cheques. Pert pieces of copper coinage thrust deep into trouser pockets! Romantic foreign money rolling against the thigh with rough familiarity! Beautiful wayward curlicued banknotes!
Filigreed copper plating cheek by jowl with tumbly hexagonal-milled edges rubbing gently against the terse leather of beautifully balanced bank books! I'm sorry, but I love money. Some people just really love money. Not wealth for the luxuries or the power. They love money itself , to the point they have a Money Fetish. Okay, not to the point they actually get turned on by it usually.
They just like feeling it, bathing in it, tasting it , listening to it , sleeping on it , diving around in it like a porpoise, and burrowing through it like a gopher. It could be coins, jewelry, paper money, or all three.
Either way, these characters treat money itself as a luxury to enjoy. They might break into a Money Song. Contrast Wicked Wastefulness for characters who are wasteful with their money. This gets him blown away by her. When Zeke tells her about Iceburst stone which Hizuru could use to improve their industries and prosper, she literally starts salivating. Haqua from Battle Spirits Sword Eyes.
