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Unwarily I trod the [[bottom of the range|basest range]] <br> | Unwarily I trod the [[bottom of the range|basest range]] <br> | ||
And sold there what I borrowed: <br> | And sold there what I borrowed: <br> | ||
A common stock of dismal prospect. <br> | A [[tier one capital|common stock]] of dismal prospect. <br> | ||
{{Script|Herculio}}: A manful punt for so scant a likely gain? <br> | {{Script|Herculio}}: A manful punt for so scant a likely gain? <br> | ||
{{Script|Ser Jaramey}}: Aye but, I thought, yet safe enough — <br> | {{Script|Ser Jaramey}}: Aye but, I thought, yet safe enough — <br> | ||
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Casts surer shade across the [[Chapter 11|purgatorial chapter]] <br> | Casts surer shade across the [[Chapter 11|purgatorial chapter]] <br> | ||
Than e’er it might upon some distant hea’enly host. <br> | Than e’er it might upon some distant hea’enly host. <br> | ||
Forsooth, the surest thing was up: its only way was down. <br> | |||
{{script|Herculio}}: Oh? Did it not turn out so? <br> | {{script|Herculio}}: Oh? Did it not turn out so? <br> | ||
{{script|Ser Jaramey}}: A [[Reddit|noisome band of amateurs]] did twist its price. <br> | {{script|Ser Jaramey}}: A [[Reddit|noisome band of amateurs]] did twist its price. <br> | ||
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{{script|Ser Jaramey}}: How might I wish! <br> | {{script|Ser Jaramey}}: How might I wish! <br> | ||
{{script|Nuncle}}: It went to the moon. <br> | {{script|Nuncle}}: It went to the moon. <br> | ||
{{Script|Ser Jaramey}}: Th’ eternal rolling gears, as if by unseen hand <br> | |||
Propel the market’ ebb and pop <br> | |||
When gripped by retail flippancy | |||
Betrayed a deviation beyond the standard | |||
And this precipitatously didst my position drop. | |||
{{script|Nuncle}}: When the [[GameStop]] stops, stop.<br> | {{script|Nuncle}}: When the [[GameStop]] stops, stop.<br> | ||
{{script|Herculio}}: How fares thy mark-to-market now? <br> | {{script|Herculio}}: How fares thy mark-to-market now? <br> | ||
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{{Script|Herculio}}: “Damp,” you say? I never heard a portfolio get wet! <br> | {{Script|Herculio}}: “Damp,” you say? I never heard a portfolio get wet! <br> | ||
{{script|Nuncle}}: Yet ever’y other one is under water. <br> | {{script|Nuncle}}: Yet ever’y other one is under water. <br> | ||
{{script|Herculio}}: Now I catch the drift. How | {{script|Herculio}}: Now I catch the drift. How deep is “down”? <br> | ||
{{Script|Ser Jaramey}}: More fathoms than I can fathom. <br> | {{Script|Ser Jaramey}}: More fathoms than I can fathom. <br> | ||
And now the one who wrote my swap hath taken ill, <br> | And now the one who wrote my swap hath taken ill, <br> | ||
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{{script|Ser Jaramey}}: No more or less, Herculio: that is my dilemma.<br> | {{script|Ser Jaramey}}: No more or less, Herculio: that is my dilemma.<br> | ||
{{script|Herculio}}: Then this nifty [[rider]] sees you right. <br> | {{script|Herculio}}: Then this nifty [[rider]] sees you right. <br> | ||
It purporteth not suspension nor | It purporteth not suspension nor egregious snatch of weakling’s rights — <br> | ||
Nor any term alike | Nor any term alike that’s imperilled by a bust.<br> | ||
The payment “stopped” did not but start: <br> | The charmèd scheme is this: <br> | ||
Thine payment “stopped” did not but start: <br> | |||
’Twas ne’er there to set aside. <Br> | ’Twas ne’er there to set aside. <Br> | ||
Salt tears, o’er un-spilt milk, are seldom cried <br> | |||
One cannot abrogate that which, by careful shape of precedentery, was never yet applied.<br> | One cannot abrogate that which, by careful shape of precedentery, was never yet applied.<br> | ||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: Less an asset flawed than an assetted flaw.<br> | {{Script|Nuncle}}: Less an asset flawed than an assetted flaw.<br> | ||
{{Script|Ser Jaramey}}: | {{Script|Ser Jaramey}}: But where’s the thread <br> | ||
By which this cunning trap is sprung? <br> | |||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: Aye, there’s the jape. The tripwire lies unstrung.<br> | |||