Welcome back to Worldwide Exchange, the head of the Carlyle Group becoming the latest financial industry leader to sound off on rising worries around credit markets.
Carlyle's swirling tumultuous prose, full of breathless outrages and bloody imagery, is a true revolutionary register, and Dickens knew well he could not improve upon it.
By concentrating on the role of the fictional Defarges, Dickens mostly steers clear of Carlyle's panoramic model, but he does borrow these details of the Bastille architecture.
Reporters from anointed publications were ushered in sequentially for their hour with him in his Carlyle Hotel suite, where a Lisa computer was set on a table and surrounded by cut flowers.
It's part of the problem, I think, and you know this very well, having invested heavily as a co-CEO of Carlyle and investing in infrastructure which takes a long time.
And then just very quick, if you look at the non-banks that may have some credit exposure, Apollo, Carlyle, Blackstone, are you watching those for some message here as well?