Guys and Dolls
By Abe BurrowsNathan is not a gambler, he is a facilitator of gambling. He is famous for running the "oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York." The Billmore Garage, the site he has selected for the next game, wants $1,000 dollars, which is perfect except he doesn't have the cash... But Sky Masterson does.
NATHAN:
Sky Masterson! There is the highest player of them all! Higher than anybody. Why do you think they call him Sky? That's how high he bets. I once saw him bet five thousand dollars on a cockroach. And another time he was sick, and he wouldn't take penicillin on account he had bet ten C's that his temperature would go to 102. He's so lucky it went to 106. Good old Sky. With him a thousand dollars ain't lending money - it's betting money. So why don't I bet him? Why don't I bet him a thousand on something? I ain't scared. I am perfectly willing to take the risk, providing I can figure out a bet on which there is no chance of losing...
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