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As they dove feverishly into the weeds the project scope expanded — at first gradually; in the closing stages at breakneck pace — and in the final days — as per the warning of [[Pimco van der Sark]], ex-NASA and now a lexophysical engineer at the University of [[Bretton Woods]] — exceeded the [[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension]] altogether. There was a sudden, catastrophic implosion, and everything associated with the project — all drafts, riders, boilerplate, annexes, schedules — and everyone — the firm {{ISDA}} engaged to “hold the pen” — a mysterious cyber law firm that spontaneously winked into existence when a document management system became self-aware<ref>The firm, [[Tubb Fuller Breaden Potter Bacon]], (known in its marketing literature as [[TFBPB]]) has never been heard of since, and curiously, no record now exists of this firm before 2008, even though it was apparently a global behemoth.</ref> — and several thousand members of ISDA’s document working group, seconded by their employers to contributing their “clarifications” and [[For the avoidance of doubt|doubt-avoidances]] for the greater good of the standard form, simply vanished into thin air. | As they dove feverishly into the weeds the project scope expanded — at first gradually; in the closing stages at breakneck pace — and in the final days — as per the warning of [[Pimco van der Sark]], ex-NASA and now a lexophysical engineer at the University of [[Bretton Woods]] — exceeded the [[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension]] altogether. There was a sudden, catastrophic implosion, and everything associated with the project — all drafts, riders, boilerplate, annexes, schedules — and everyone — the firm {{ISDA}} engaged to “hold the pen” — a mysterious cyber law firm that spontaneously winked into existence when a document management system became self-aware<ref>The firm, [[Tubb Fuller Breaden Potter Bacon]], (known in its marketing literature as [[TFBPB]]) has never been heard of since, and curiously, no record now exists of this firm before 2008, even though it was apparently a global behemoth.</ref> — and several thousand members of ISDA’s document working group, seconded by their employers to contributing their “clarifications” and [[For the avoidance of doubt|doubt-avoidances]] for the greater good of the standard form, simply vanished into thin air. | ||
It was subsequently shown by [[Pimco van der Sark|van der Sark]] (a character loosely based on real-life lexophysicist [[Havid Dilbert]]) that all this energy was not destroyed, but instead ejected as a white-hot spume of coordinated financial capital regulation, spewing out across the financial universe a whole new in [[space-tedium]] dimension. | It was subsequently shown by [[Pimco van der Sark|van der Sark]] (a character loosely based on real-life lexophysicist [[Havid Dilbert]]) that all this energy was not destroyed, but instead ejected as a white-hot spume of coordinated financial capital regulation, spewing out across the financial universe a whole new in [[space-tedium]] dimension. Interestingly, along with the regulation, [[Flight 19]], a squadron of Linklaters syntax convolution bombers missing in action since disappearing from reality over the [[Bermuda Option Triangle]] during a routine redrafting mission in 2011, were discovered, dazed and confused but still alive, in the New Mexico desert. This was doubly curious because they were dislocated in both space, tedium and ''time'': in 2008, they had not yet even gone missing. | ||
But in the immediate aftermath of the implosion everything — the document, the personnel, the drafting miscellanea and terabytes of [[Tedium|tedia]] — were lost to history. We now do not know what the agreement said, how it said it, or indeed whether the agreement really existed at all. And the chatbots — | But in the immediate aftermath of the implosion everything — the document, the personnel, the drafting miscellanea and terabytes of [[Tedium|tedia]] — were lost to history. We now do not know what the agreement said, how it said it, or indeed whether the agreement really existed at all. And the chatbots — | ||