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''There it was''. He pulled the file. The volume was dry and worn away at the edges. The spine was cracked. He carefully leafed back through the pages — 1999, 1998, 1997 ... August, July, June — but then thought, ''no''. He closed the book, balanced it on this palm. As the legal commentaries predicted, it split by itself and fell open at page 532. Barberazza regarded it: a yellowed, waxen page, pinned in the corner. On it, smudged, faded pixels. He could just make out the underlying, double-faxed text. | ''There it was''. He pulled the file. The volume was dry and worn away at the edges. The spine was cracked. He carefully leafed back through the pages — 1999, 1998, 1997 ... August, July, June — but then thought, ''no''. He closed the book, balanced it on this palm. As the legal commentaries predicted, it split by itself and fell open at page 532. Barberazza regarded it: a yellowed, waxen page, pinned in the corner. On it, smudged, faded pixels. He could just make out the underlying, double-faxed text. | ||
{{quote|THIS LEGEND SHALL CEASE TO APPLY UPON THE EXPIRY OF THE PERIOD OF 40 DAYS AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF ALL THE SECURITIES OF THE TRANCHE OF WHICH THIS SECURITY FORMS PART.}} | }}{{quote|THIS LEGEND SHALL CEASE TO APPLY UPON THE EXPIRY OF THE PERIOD OF 40 DAYS AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF ALL THE SECURITIES OF THE TRANCHE OF WHICH THIS SECURITY FORMS PART.}}{{indent| | ||
And there is was, a single-faxed manuscript, ringing the final full stop, leading to a little balloon in the margin, in which the worlds were scrawled: “not bold”. | And there is was, a single-faxed manuscript, ringing the final full stop, leading to a little balloon in the margin, in which the worlds were scrawled: “not bold”. | ||
“Whoa,” Barberazza breathed. | “Whoa,” Barberazza breathed. “The [[Biggs hoson|Biggs Hoson]]. The very first.” | ||
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