[ via Zed ] R.A. Lafferty predicts the high-turnover, passe-in-15-minutes world of now in a story written back in 1963.
The panhandler was Basil Bagelbaker, who would be the richest man in the world within an hour and a half. He would make and lose four fortunes within eight hours; and these not the little fortunes that ordinary men acquire, but titanic things.
