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All — the document, the personnel, the drafting miscellanea and terabytes of [[Tedium|tedia]] — are now 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 robots — | All — the document, the personnel, the drafting miscellanea and terabytes of [[Tedium|tedia]] — are now 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 robots — | ||
Well, speaking of robots, Barkley claims that Roy Batty’s extraordinary speech from the original ''Blade Runner'' (1982) fell ''backwards in time'' through a rent in the fabric of the [[space-tedium continuum]] created by the 2008 financial markets implosion, landing in Rutger Hauer’s lap as he was waiting in makeup for that final scene. Hauer, not realising this was a unique document from the apocalyptic future, took it for a script redraft. He adapted it, but only slightly, from the original record, which was exchange between an [[ETD]] [[negotiator]] and a mortally injured {{tag|CDO}} lawyer as he dragged his mutilated psyche away from the smoking ruins of his employer: | Well, speaking of robots, Barkley claims that Roy Batty’s extraordinary speech from the original ''Blade Runner'' (1982) originated when a page of his novel fell ''backwards in time'' through a rent in the fabric of the [[space-tedium continuum]] created by the 2008 financial markets implosion, landing in Rutger Hauer’s lap as he was waiting in makeup for that final scene. Hauer, not realising this was a unique document from the apocalyptic future, took it for a script redraft. He adapted it, but only slightly, from the original record, which was exchange between an [[ETD]] [[negotiator]] and a mortally injured {{tag|CDO}} lawyer as he dragged his mutilated psyche away from the smoking ruins of his employer: | ||
“You thought you knew ''everything'', didn’t you,” [[sneered]] the hapless [[futures]] specialist. “And ''now'' look at us. ''You'' did this. You have no idea.” | “You thought you knew ''everything'', didn’t you,” [[sneered]] the hapless [[futures]] specialist. “And ''now'' look at us. ''You'' did this. You have no idea.” | ||