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{{a|devil|[[File:Annie.png|450px|thumb|center|Annie, get your gun]]}}{{quote| | {{a|devil|[[File:Annie.png|450px|thumb|center|Annie, get your gun]]}}{{quote| | ||
The sun’ll come out tomorrow <br> | ''The sun’ll come out tomorrow'' <br> | ||
Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow | ''Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun'' <br> | ||
''Just thinkin’ about tomorrow'' <br> | |||
Just thinkin’ about tomorrow <br> | ''Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow ’til there’s none'' <br> | ||
Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow | |||
<br> | <br> | ||
Tomorrow! Tomorrow! | ''Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya, tomorrow! —'' <br> | ||
I love ya, tomorrow! — <br> | ''You’re always a day away.'' <br> | ||
You’re always a day away. <br> | |||
:— “Tomorrow”, from ''Annie'' (1977)}} | :— “Tomorrow”, from ''Annie'' (1977)}} | ||
“When budget allows” is a | “When budget allows” is a [[hypothetical]] time in the future that, like Little Orphan Annie’s ''Tomorrow'', is always there, dangling tantalisingly before us, as each day turns, getting no nearer. It is an [[Indeterminate liability|indeterminate]] time of hope and aspiration: a sunlit dream-time in which there ''will'' be budget to hook up that feed, build out that [[API]] or invest in that brilliant piece of [[legaltech]], for which there is no budget ''now''. | ||
Logicians will immediately sense a [[paradox]]. If its worth ''now'' fails to pass muster, its [[present value]] should it be delivered at an unknowable point in the henceforth is surely smaller still. The aperture constricts the further out we push. Through what of contortion in the [[Space-tedium continuum|spacetedium continuum]] must we crawl to reach that happy land? | Logicians will immediately sense a [[paradox]]. If its worth ''now'' fails to pass muster, its [[present value]] should it be delivered at an unknowable point in the henceforth is surely smaller still. The aperture constricts the further out we push. Through what of contortion in the [[Space-tedium continuum|spacetedium continuum]] must we crawl to reach that happy land? | ||