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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]]. | {{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 [[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 at a given point in time — but orbiting around one queasy weekend in September 2008, {{br|The Atlantis Variation}} concerns the machinations of a malign secret [[Clavam Hominum Senum Pallidorum|secret society of stuffy old men]], working in the bowels of the great institutions of their day, on “Project Atlantis”, a plot to revolutionise the derivatives trading universe with a new master trading agreement, the [[2008 ISDA Master Agreement]], known therefore as the Atlantis Variation. | 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 at a given point in time — but in a sprawling, overplanned clockwork metropolis, groaning with grey entropic, engineered minutiae and orbiting around one queasy weekend in September 2008, {{br|The Atlantis Variation}} concerns the machinations of a malign secret [[Clavam Hominum Senum Pallidorum|secret society of stuffy old men]], working in the bowels of the great institutions of their day, on “Project Atlantis”, a plot to revolutionise the derivatives trading universe with a new master trading agreement, the [[2008 ISDA Master Agreement]], known therefore as the Atlantis Variation. | ||
According to Barkley’s dystopian vision, the {{2008ma}} would be a definitive, final, [[flawed asset|flawless]]<ref>There was to be no Section {{isdaprov|2(a)(iii)}}</ref> self-aware edition of the {{isdama}}. 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. | According to Barkley’s dystopian vision, the {{2008ma}} would be a definitive, final, [[flawed asset|flawless]]<ref>There was to be no Section {{isdaprov|2(a)(iii)}}</ref> self-aware edition of the {{isdama}}. 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. | ||