New England White 之 Kellen Zant

It's kinda late to start writing about Kellen at this time, but anyway, he is the trigger of the whole story.

The following chapters/sections contain information about Kellen Zant: pp 20-22; pp 28; pp 48.

Kellen was born in the South of no certain origin, and spent years battering his way into his current career position: he was a professor in economics who held one of the most prestigious [ ˌpres'ti:dʒəs ] endowed chairs - Tyson professorship in economics. He has a notoriety[ ˌnətə'raiəti ] about his personal life in contrast, and he prefer to earn income by consulting for large corporations and meanwhile committed very little scholarship in recent years. He's undoubtedly very talented according to Lemaster's comments: "In my chat with Kellen, I suggested that an economist of his eminence could do much to change the world if he would spend less of his energy on his private clients, and more on scholarship." The Zant-Feldman equation was one of the greatest advances in finance theory in the past half century.

On the other hand, Kellen was a person full of affairs. He liked life to change around him and hates to do the same thing twice. He's excited about future and all possibilities. He loved to fight, partly to impress some girls he was interested in, and he is, of course, attractive to lots of women. In Kellen's life, Julia is the greatest love of him, and the person he trusted most (or, should I say, the only person he ever completely trusted.). But to Julia, Kellen was one of the two men she truly loved in her life, but destroyed her in the end (Lemaster was the one who had put her back together).

There are still lots of mysteries about Kellen and people who had had relation with him. Who is Mary Mallard, the woman who had tried to learn about the "surplus" from Julia? Who did the break-in into Kellen's room and what kind of Kellen's work did they take away? What was Kellen trying to tell Julia about the trouble he had, and what was the "inventory risk" supposed to mean?...