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 [[File:Beirut.png|450px|thumb|center|A completed contract, yesterday.]]
-}}{{quote|{{D|Document risk|/ˈdɒkjʊmənt rɪsk/|n|}}
+}}{{quote|The devil is not ''in'' the detail. The devil ''is'' the detail.}}
+{{D|Document risk|/ˈdɒkjʊmənt rɪsk/|n|}}
-The risk to an organisation — overstated in the collective, but wildly ''under''stated in the particular — that it loses money because its legal contracts with its customers aren’t “strong” enough.}}
+The risk to an organisation — overstated in the collective, but wildly ''under''stated in the particular — that it loses money because its legal contracts with its customers aren’t “strong” enough.
 The usual way of defending against document risk is to treat each customer contract as if it were a ''communiqué'' between hostile nations, drawn up in a last-ditch bid to avoid bloodshed on the eve of war.
-Of course— this is the lesson of the {{pl|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment|Stanford Prison Experiment}}, after all — when you treat a customer like a presumptive criminal, it will tend to behave like one. That being the case, by the time it is concluded, your contract will tend to look less like the exchange of lavender-scented love letters you would expect, and more like downtown Beirut in 1976 just after a particularly vigorous shelling.
+But if you treat a customer like a criminal it will tend to behave like one. If your early draft looks like a rap sheet, by the time your contract is concluded, it will look less like the exchange of lavender-scented love letters it should, and more like downtown Beirut in 1976, just after a particularly vigorous shelling.
-Now, one incomprehensible, bullet-riddled tract is a tragedy; a hundred thousand of them are a statistic: a ''healthy'' statistic, a collective mass that conceals each ugly instance.
+Now, one incomprehensible, bullet-riddled tract is a tragedy; a hundred thousand of them are a statistic: a statistic that on its legible face seems ''healthy'', because the collective mass that conceals each ugly instance. The devil is not ''in'' the detail. The devil <nowiki>''is''</nowiki> the detail.
 Yet believing one has a colossal portfolio of battle-tempered contracts bestows great comfort on senior personnel in [[credit]] and [[legal]]. It tells them the firm has laboured hard to defend its interests: all bad things that might come to pass have been anticipated by the battery of preternaturally paranoid [[Contract negotiation|negotiation specialists]] they have at their disposal.