A hilarious and frenetic look at what Spanish silver from the New World meant to world history in the West, probably (not) inspiring F. S. Fitzgerald, 400 years later, to write:

For a transitory, enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

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