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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 . 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 | {{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 have wrangled canonical text through the medium of hand-to-hand fighting — strikes us as plausible: phrasing as pained as ISDA’s can surely only come from martial combat: no sound mind, in a state of peaceable reflection could possibly perpetrate such tortured syntax. | ||
The central drama | The central drama occurs when a young [[Ser Jaramey]] confronts the elders of his calling during [[the Wording]] session convened to finally consecrate the definition of “{{cddprov|Event Determination Date}}” in the {{cddefs}}. | ||
Sadly, only a fragment of the libretto now remains but | Sadly, only a fragment of the libretto now remains, but it is reproduced below. Unusually, it is in English, apparently transcribed by longtime {{buchstein}} antagonist, [[Winthrop Grumman]], who took notes while the author mumbled incoherently from the depths of a malarial swoon in an opium den in old Mandalay. | ||
{{quote|{{jc:the Wording}}}} | {{quote|{{jc:the Wording}}}} |