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Soft hands from baby bonds

By Infuriant, 30 December 2007

In Mute 2.6 fictitious capital collided with hypermetrical verse distemper[*].  What follows makes matters worse by further entangling these things with forthcoming Mute subject matter: baby biometrics, tax credit tagging for Hard To Let Families, etc.

[* See also: QUID 18: créateur d'intérieurs (£4 incl. P&P, from Keston Sutherland, Arts B, University of Sussex, Flamer, Brighton BN1 9QH, or http://www.barquepress.com/quid.html)]

Soft hands from Baby Bonds

face gone in freezing fog in flames in sure-starred perpetual obligationre re Munich Sicherheit all your tomorrows & so weitercome at once

get him up off the ground and into it [1.]downgrade my uplathe ways [2.]

it is permissible to rhyme a word with itselfbut his repetitions seem at times motivated less  by any expressive goal than byan inabilityto think of another word.

Ergo totgeschlagen! [3.]every child-risk leveraged up to the full five targets and includingtotal recall of appointments missed

Implied (i.e. spot price of cover against future) Volatility [4.]Is it oblivion or absorption when things pass from our minds? [5.]

strays flinch, avid for favours but plight trothed must at least be able to hold a normal conversation [6.] Sin in the diminiutive Masque of pleasure neuropeptides Ludwig II-style

Are you askin' me or are you tellin' me? [7.]negative looks triggerthe wounded monolines descend [8.]unlikewiseworking: families tax creditShanghai-spurned yet safe from accidentalset up repetition magic howl

building on the strengths of visiting,I never thought of conceiving that I could ever have the slightest approach to sucha want in all future time. [9.]

[1.] Sam Peckinpah, 'Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid', MGM, 1973[2.] Putzimutzi (R.I.P.)[3.] Georg Buechner, 'Dantons Tod', Gesammelte Werke, Goldmann, 1956[4.] Implied volatility: of stock market prices, as measured not by variation of the prices themselves, but by that of the price of insuring or 'hedging' against such volatility.[5.] Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters, Ed. Mabel Loomis Todd, Dover, 2003[6.] Recently introduced as a minimum requirement for applicants for German residency through marriage.[7.] Peckinpah, op. cit.[8.] Monolines: a recently-doomed section of finance capital.  More precisely, bond insurers, which tend to be 'worth' less than the bonds insured, so that Chinese sovereign wealth funds find them too unappetizing to be worth rescuing.  News just in suggests that Warren Buffett is about to swallow all of them whole.  What's really shocking, though, is that no consortium of single parents ever attempted to  pool and securitze their Tax Credit for a quick, highly leveraged profit.[9.] Dickinson, op. cit.