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The [[double full stop]] — a fossil record indicating the insertion, and then removal, of a sentence that you suspect 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]]. And ''closing dinner'' did you say? ''Bite'' me.” | The [[double full stop]] — a fossil record indicating the insertion, and then removal, of a sentence that you suspect 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]]. And ''closing dinner'' did you say? ''Bite'' me.” | ||
This may, but does not have to, arise during the end game of a vigorously-negotiated [[deal]]. | 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. | ||
Now you can imagine, as no doubt [[CIMA]] did, that such a project was not [[calculated]] to attract world-wide attention. Perhaps they assigned it to their newest member, by way of initiation ritual, as a practical joke, or as an earnest means of learning the ropes. We speculate. In any weather, the new rules started off brightly enough: | Now you can imagine, as no doubt [[CIMA]] did, that such a project was not [[calculated]] to attract world-wide attention. Perhaps they assigned it to their newest member, by way of initiation ritual, as a practical joke, or as an earnest means of learning the ropes. We speculate. In any weather, the new rules started off brightly enough: | ||