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What is left is a tract with all the usual [[tedious]] legal tropes but improbably strewn with unextinguished [[blob]]s, square brackets and miscellaneous harmless typos, the most feckless of which is the [[double full stop]].. | What is left is a tract with all the usual [[tedious]] legal tropes but improbably strewn with unextinguished [[blob]]s, square brackets and miscellaneous harmless typos, the most feckless of which is the [[double full stop]].. | ||
The [[double full stop]] — a fossil record indicating the insertion, and then removal, of a sentence of which no other trace remains, but that you can be sure started, “[[for the avoidance of doubt]], ...” is unusually acute in its | The [[double full stop]] — a fossil record indicating the insertion, and then removal, of a sentence of which no other trace remains, but that you can be sure started, “[[for the avoidance of doubt]], ...” is unusually acute in its bathos. It says, “this mattered to me once, gravely, but now I am past caring. I hate you all. Just deliver me from this godforsaken project. Let me go. I don’t even want a [[tombstone]].” | ||
This may, but does not have to, arise during the end game of a vigorously-negotiated [[deal]]. Regulators are prone to it, too. A celebrated example comes from the [[Cayman Islands Monetary Authority]]’s recent, bished, attempt to update its rules on [[asset segregation]] for [[investment fund]]s. Yes, yes: I know what you are thinking: ''be still, my beating heart.'' But ride along with us for a while. | This may, but does not have to, arise during the end game of a vigorously-negotiated [[deal]]. Regulators are prone to it, too. A celebrated example comes from the [[Cayman Islands Monetary Authority]]’s recent, bished, attempt to update its rules on [[asset segregation]] for [[investment fund]]s. Yes, yes: I know what you are thinking: ''be still, my beating heart.'' But ride along with us for a while. |