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}}A sure sign a document has had a tortured gestation, during which it was feasted on by [[legal eagle]]s from all quarters but — critically — before all was said and done [[deal fatigue]] set in, most of them lost interest, and someone said, “O.K., hang it, let’s just sign the damn thing.” | }}A sure sign a document has had a tortured gestation, during which it was feasted on by [[legal eagle]]s from all quarters but — critically — before all was said and done [[deal fatigue]] set in, most of them lost interest, and someone said, “O.K., hang it, let’s just sign the damn thing.” | ||
What is left is a tract with all the usual [[tedious]] legal tropes but unusually strewn with unextinguished blobs, 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 unusually strewn with unextinguished blobs, square brackets and miscellaneous harmless typos, the most feckless of which is the [[double full stop]].. | ||
The double full stop is a mis-punctuation unusually acute in its [[bathos]]. It says, “this mattered to me once, but I am past caring. Just deliver me from this godforsaken project. Let me go.” | The double full stop is a mis-punctuation unusually acute in its [[bathos]]. It says, “this mattered to me once, but I am past caring. Just deliver me from this godforsaken project. Let me go.” | ||