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The CDO man turned, a replicant glimmer in his eye, and he said this: | The CDO man turned, a replicant glimmer in his eye, and he said this: | ||
:I’ve seen things you people wouldn't believe. | {{box| | ||
:Attack-ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion 2006-1 hybrid CDO. | :''I’ve seen things you people wouldn't believe.'' | ||
:I watched mezzanine-tranches glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. | :''Attack-ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion 2006-1 hybrid CDO.'' | ||
:All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. | :''I watched mezzanine-tranches glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.'' | ||
:Time to retrain as a primary school teacher. | :''All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.'' | ||
:''Time to retrain as a primary school teacher.'' | |||
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As it was, the challenge was just too big. The project expanded — at first gradually; in the closing stages at breakneck pace — and in the final days is believed to have exceeded its [[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension|Schwarzschild radius]] altogether. There was a sudden, catastrophic implosion, and everything associated with the project — all traces of the agreement, earlier drafts, the firm {{ISDA}} engaged to coordinate the drafting (Messrs [[Tubb Fuller Breaden Potter Bacon]])<ref>[[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 bemoth</ref> and several thousand members of ISDA’s document working group seconded by their employers to contributing their “clarifications” and doubt-avoidances for the greater good of the standard form. All — the document, the personnel, and the drafting tedia — have been lost to history, and we now do not know what the agreement said, how it said it, or indeed whether the agreement really existed at all. | As it was, the challenge was just too big. The project expanded — at first gradually; in the closing stages at breakneck pace — and in the final days is believed to have exceeded its [[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension|Schwarzschild radius]] altogether. There was a sudden, catastrophic implosion, and everything associated with the project — all traces of the agreement, earlier drafts, the firm {{ISDA}} engaged to coordinate the drafting (Messrs [[Tubb Fuller Breaden Potter Bacon]])<ref>[[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 bemoth</ref> and several thousand members of ISDA’s document working group seconded by their employers to contributing their “clarifications” and doubt-avoidances for the greater good of the standard form. All — the document, the personnel, and the drafting tedia — have been lost to history, and we now do not know what the agreement said, how it said it, or indeed whether the agreement really existed at all. | ||
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