But no-one reads this, do they?

After all that ISDA chat, a bit of light philosophical relief this week. What are legal contracts for, exactly? Does anyone know?

A banquet, yesterday. DJ just getting cracking. Can you spot the customer?

HERCULIO: Ay, drafted, is ’t;
But to my mind, though eagle-tuned
And to the manner born, this Condition is
More honour’d in the breach than the performance.
This heavy-handed sheaf of windy guff
Doth impose a weighty tax upon our distant aspirations;
These ticket-clippers with their mal…