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 {{a|myth|{{image|mezztranches|png|''I Watched Mezzanine Tranches Glitter In The Dark'', {{vsr|2009}}}}}}''The Atlantis Variation'' is a [[finance fiction]] novella by [[Vega|alpha-crazed]] beat poet [[Hunter Barkley]].
-Set in a fluctuating spacetime that [[waiver]]s crazily between the present, future and one queasy weekend in September 2008, it concerns the machinations of a malign [[Clavam Hominum Senum Pallidorum|secret society]] working in the shadows to produce the [[2008 ISDA Master Agreement]], known under its working title as the Atlantis Variation — hence the title of Barkley’s novel.
+Set in a fluctuating spacetime that [[waiver]]s crazily between the [[present]], [[future]] and [[past]] — Barkley went so far as to invent a whole new tense, the “plumperfect present”, to deal with events which, he said, could only be located probabilistically in [[spacetime]] — but orbiting around one queasy weekend in September 2008, {{br|The Atlantis  Variation}} concerns the machinations of a malign [[Clavam Hominum Senum Pallidorum|secret society of stuffy old men]] working in the bowels of the great institutions of their day, to produce the [[2008 ISDA Master Agreement]], known under its working title as the “Project Atlantis”.
-The Atlantis Variation was to be an apocalyptic edition of the {{isdama}} that was ''almost'' completed in  2008, only prevented by the intervening near total financial destruction of the planet. It never saw the light of day, instead collapsing into a form of dark tedium that continues to upset those who would seek to harness the power of the universe.
+The Atlantis Variation was to be a definitive, final, [[flawed asset|flawless]]<ref>There was to be no Section {{isdaprov|2(a)(iii)}}<> apocalyptic edition of the {{isdama}} that was ''almost'' completed in  2008, only prevented by the intervening near total financial destruction of the planet. It never saw the light of day, instead collapsing into a form of dark tedium that continues to upset those who would seek to harness the power of the universe.
-According to Barkley’s dystopian vision, the {{2008ma}} was to be short, plainly worded, future-proofed and agile. It would allow counterparties to agree robust trading terms with little fuss and only the cursory clerical management delivered through unskilled personnel in low-cost jurisdictions and, eventually, [[chatbot]]<nowiki/>s.
+According to Barkley’s dystopian vision, the {{2008ma}} was to be short, plainly worded, future-proofed and agile. It would allow counterparties to agree robust trading terms with little fuss and only the cursory clerical management delivered through unskilled personnel in low-cost jurisdictions and, eventually, [[chatbot]]s.
 It promised to be the long-lost missing [[Obsolescence|use-case]] for [[distributed ledger technology]], natively negotiated “[[Blockchain|on-chain]]” between arrays of dematerialised [[large language model]]s housed, for the sense of theatre, [[Proverbial school-leaver from Bucharest|in a single giant data centre in the outskirts of Bucharest]].