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 You can plot it through time on a graph, as a straight line rising at more or less the steepest possible gradient at which an independent observer’s eyes will not involuntarily water.
-The average [[Magic circle law firm|magic circle]] partner charge-out rate passed £1,000 in 2016, escaping the surly bonds of economic gravity and streaking out past the heliosphere into the deep frozen blackness of interstellar space. Ordinary commerce has now lost all contact with the charge-out rate. The last photo it sent back was a blurry image of a [[blob]] of dust suspended in a sunbeam: our budget; a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic billingness.<ref>Apologies, of course, to Carl Sagan.</ref>
+The average [[Magic circle law firm|magic circle]] partner charge-out rate passed £1,000 in 2016, escaping the surly bonds of economic plausibility, and streaking out past the heliosphere into the deep frozen blackness of interstellar gall. Ordinary commerce has now lost all contact; the last photo it sent back was a blurry image of a [[blob]] of dust suspended in a sunbeam: our budget; a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic billingness.<ref>Apologies, of course, to Carl Sagan.</ref>
 And yet this rising line will continue inevitably, inexorably and without variation, regardless of market condition, geopolitical angst, or the softness of the labour or investment market, until the very [[end of days]].