Jim Morgan, who is about as close to Wall Street greedmeister Gordon Gekko as Murphy is to Manteo.

Lovable old Sam, with as many arms as an octopussy.

What garnered contempt from the pair were the criteria upon which admission to the poshocracy depended, criteria founded on the cliquery of the English upper classes, a cliquery that, disseminated as 'team spirit' (14) in public schools and perpetuated by the most privileged and credulous of undergraduates, found its way full-circle in the mentality of the graduating elite.

Statues, of heroic size, would be erected to the great ant heroes — warriors, builders, or what not — inscribed with phrases like, He was the antliest ant of all time. . . . And of course there would be an anthropomorphic god.