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A manager knows that only [[Legal eagle|one with magic powers]] can say those things. A manager can only focus on what she ''does'' understand: the ''price'' of [[pizza]], not its ''value''. | A manager knows that only [[Legal eagle|one with magic powers]] can say those things. A manager can only focus on what she ''does'' understand: the ''price'' of [[pizza]], not its ''value''. | ||
But there is a dark inversion to this ignorance. For such is the inscrutability of the legal craft — so ''impenetrable'' is it — that a | But there is a dark inversion to this ignorance. For such is the inscrutability of the legal craft — so ''impenetrable'' is it — that a [[muggle]] knows only that one ''has'' this magic, or one ''has not''. Those who ''have'' it are interchangeable; substitutable; switchable; ''[[fungible]]''. Any of them will do, and the cheapest is best. Hence the manager’s regular reconnaissance missions to those parts of Manila where the streets have no name. | ||
===The irony of the ineffable=== | ===The irony of the ineffable=== |