Pinehurst # 2 is also a recurring theme, at $350. Now, I don't want to sound like a Philistine and an ignoramus, but #2 would somehow have to be 3 times better than, say, Mid Pine or Pine Needles for me, nowadays, to drop that kind of money on it. The trouble, as I well know, is: what the heck does "3 times better" mean? How does one measure it? (It's like that song of years ago, that praised a woman for being "once, twice, three times a lady". Still don't have any idea what that would look like; but it sort of gives me the creeps). So I guess in short, it comes down (re measuring the value) to something along the lines of what salesman Ricky Roma says to a would be buyer in Glengarry Glen Ross:
Stocks, bonds, objects of art - what are they? An opportunity to make money - perhaps. An opportunity to lose money - perhaps. An opportunity to indulge and to learn about ourselves - so f--king what, what isn't? They're an event - that's all the are.