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{{a|otto|{{image|wording|jpg|“Are we done, then, brother and sister nights? Are we ''done''?”}} }}An unfinished, mostly lost and certainly misguided operetta from that impenetrable Austrian plowwright {{otto}}. | {{a|otto|{{image|wording|jpg|“Are we done, then, brother and sister nights? Are we ''done''?”}} }}An unfinished, mostly lost and certainly misguided operetta from that impenetrable Austrian plowwright {{otto}}. | ||
Ser Jaramey Slizzard appears to have been assembled, as usual, from conflicting and dubious readings of mythology — this time the legends and fables behind the [[First Men]] and the genesis of The [[Single Agreement]]. | ''Ser Jaramey Slizzard'' appears to have been assembled, as usual, from conflicting and dubious readings of mythology — this time the legends and fables behind the [[First Men]] and the genesis of The [[Single Agreement]]. | ||
It is notable for the line — one of few lines of dialogue in the fragment that remains — that has now entered the [[negotiator|negotiators]]’ lexicon: | It is notable for the line — one of few lines of dialogue in the fragment that remains — that has now entered the [[negotiator|negotiators]]’ lexicon: | ||
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For all his baffling obliquity, {{buchstein}} did have a knack for the occasional pithy aphorism. | For all his baffling obliquity, {{buchstein}} did have a knack for the occasional pithy aphorism. | ||
{{PAGENAME}} is the story of a young Knight of the ISDA | {{PAGENAME}} is the story of a young Knight of the ISDA . The proceedings of that ancient order were, and remain, mortally secret, but the “Wording” — a sacred rite whereby fully-armoured ISDA knights are said to wrangle canonical text through the medium of hand-to-hand combat to product ISDA definitions — strikes us as plausible. Phrasing as pained as ISDAs’ can surely only come from martial combat: no-one of sound mind and in a state of peaceable reflection could perpetrate such tortured syntax could they? | ||
The central drama of the opera occurs when young Ser Jaramey confronts the austere denizens of his calling during [[The Wording]] convened to finally consecrate the definition of “{{cddprov|Event Determination Date}}” in the {{cddefs}}. | |||
Sadly, only a fragment of the libretto now remains but, unusually, it was written in English, apparently transcribed by longtime {{buchstein}} antagonist, [[Winthrop Grumman]], who took notes while the author mumbled from the depths of a malarial swoon in an opium den in old Mandalay. | |||
{{quote|{{jc:the Wording}}}} | {{quote|{{jc:the Wording}}}} | ||