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Now a room in a Christchurch student in the ’80s cost about forty bucks a week, and there were enough randy high-school seniors that the place was constantly in use. No-one paid more than a fiver and our young entrepreneur made a tidy profit on the side. | Now a room in a Christchurch student in the ’80s cost about forty bucks a week, and there were enough randy high-school seniors that the place was constantly in use. No-one paid more than a fiver and our young entrepreneur made a tidy profit on the side. | ||
The guy on the lease eventually got rumbled and was expelled from his school on the gloriously bombastic grounds of “''operating a brothel during school hours''”. Note, fellow lovers of [[The Victory of Form over Substance|form over substance]], that it was not renting the place ''per se'' that sunk him, but doing it ''during double biology'' | The guy on the lease eventually got rumbled and was expelled from his school on the gloriously bombastic grounds of “''operating a brothel during school hours''”. Note, fellow lovers of [[The Victory of Form over Substance|form over substance]], that it was not renting the place ''per se'' that sunk him, but doing it ''during double biology'' if you catch my meaning. ''[[Double entendre|Fnarr fnarr]]''. | ||
Now what has all this to do with the honourable practice of [[capital introduction]]? Well, analogy: the introducer rents out some space for investors and managers to size each other up, keeps well out of the way, and the benefits accruing to the introducer are just as tangential, and the risks of getting your shape wrong just as catastrophic. | Now what has all this to do with the honourable practice of [[capital introduction]]? Well, analogy: the introducer rents out some space for investors and managers to size each other up, keeps well out of the way, and the benefits accruing to the introducer are just as tangential, and the risks of getting your shape wrong just as catastrophic. | ||
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