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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}}. | ||
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 | ''Ser Jaramey Slizzard'' appears to have been assembled, as was {{buchstein}}’s habit, from conflicting and dubious readings of [[Finance fiction|financial mythology]] — this time, the legends and fables from the time of The [[Single Agreement]], the [[First Men]] and the [[Children of the Woods]]. From this material {{buchstein}} appears to have extrapolated an entire chivalric order of Swap Knights that are not reported in any other reliable source. | ||
In any case, {{PAGENAME}} is the story of a young ISDA Knight. The proceedings of that ancient order were, and remain, mortally secret, but the “[[The Wording|Wording]]” — a sacred rite whereby fully-armoured ISDA knights are said to have wrangled canonical text through the medium of hand-to-hand fighting — has some mentions in the contemporaneous historical record. As an aside, this 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 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}}. | 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}}. | ||