Precipice

Precipice

Sachiko Tamaki

Precipice Sachiko Tamaki

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Copyright Š Sachiko Tamaki Published 2016

*This novel is composed of fictional stories, and some descriptions are impressed as inadequate in modern society.

However, for the purpose to create realistic literary expressions as fiction, these are determined to be adequate within this novel.

The currency, dollar is used as the standard currency in the stories, and there is no relation to the existing real values of dollars, as well as the places, names, and so on. This novel is not intended to influence non-fictional market conditions, the economic status and financial performance, with the constitutional organizations of the states and international authorities.

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Stories & Pages

*Book I: Somewhere in the rural area during the late medieval period ... x

*Book II: Somewhere in the capital city during the earlier of the 20th century ... xxxvii

*Book III: In 1990- ... lxiii

*Profile... ccxliii

*There are no introductions that reveal climaxes of the stories.

Book I: *Alan Bobkob: The peasant man. *Tanya: Alan’s Wife. *Sasha, Colli, Yoll, Quga, Lato: The children of the Bobkobs. *Timofei: The overseer. *Losif: The bailiff. *Ben, Nez, Dolga, Liza, Motom: The peasants.

Book II: *Alan Bongway: The prime minister. *Malachi: Bongway’s deputy. *Alan Berner: The member of the army.

Book III: *Global Financial Organization (GFO): The international organization for finance, it is consisted of a representative of each nation, and organizes global financial activities, trade, currency exchange, money supply, and so on. *Treasury: The government institution that is responsible for the national budget, public expenditure, and issues of sovereign securities.

*The National Reserve: The organization for finance to make decisions on the interest rates, and to supervise money supply. *Etienne Perez: The chief representative of the National Reserve, she is the member of GFO. *The Department of Budget & Economic Growth (DBEG): This organization is responsible for national income and tax. *Secretary of Trade & Exchange: The state institution under the government, which appoints the commissioners of Trade & Exchange Officials and Patent & Trademark Officials. *Trade & Exchange Officials: The officials prohibits the corporate bond issues with the trusting companies that are the partners to share the benefits.

It organizes the Business & Market Act 1930 that regulates, for example, the Takeover Code. *Patent & Trademark Officials: This works under Secretary of Trade & Exchange, in order to issue patents and trademarks as well as to supervise commercial products and inventions to be within the safety measures.

*The Central Bank: The direct agent of money supply by means of national bond issues.

The central bank also conducts the private debts, for example, among large institutions, banks, and corporations. *The exchange markets: VOLU is the largest market with IDUOM Index. The markets abroad are COCYY with COCYY Index, and ZOBGA with COCYY Index. *Fldora Power - Fldora Energy: The ticker symbol, FLDO, utilities. *W’d Morale: The ticker symbol, WDMO, financials. *Mellet: The ticker symbol, MELL, financials. *Houps Power: The independent coal power producer. *Neocum Energy: The independent energy distributor. *The Energy & Research Center: It is located abroad.

*Rudo Trinder: The chief executive officer of Fldora, after going public. The former executive director of W’d Morale. *Dieter Sanchez: The chairman of W’d Morale. *Nelson Bongway: The founder of Fldora. *Branden Bongway: Nelson’s son. The private owner of Fldora Power. *Johanna Frobisher: The financial analyst of W’d Morale Venture Capitals and the lead-underwriter for IPO issues. *Hugo Mayer: The general chief financial officer of W’d Morale, the chief director of Investment Banking and Venture Capitals. *Holger Tremont: The chief director of W’d Morale Private Equity. *Rodell Frobisher: Johanna’s younger brother. He works for W’d Morale Investment Banking, as well as the member of her underwriter syndicate.

*Yolanda Veselovsky: The chief accountant of W’d Morale Investment Banking, as well as the member of the underwriter syndicate. *Abdulov, the Upton Family: The private investors. *Austin, Hans, Celine: The floor traders in VOLU. *Marcelo Lambert: The employee of Fldora R&D. *Regina Lambert: Marcelo’s wife. *Sigfred Zholdin: The system operator of Neocum Energy. *Quent: The financial journalist. *Kurtis: The journalist.

Book III, Footnotes: 1.Malthus, T (1798) An Essay on the principle of population, public domain.

2.Kuznets Curve.

3.Aesop’s Fables, ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’.

4.The idea is based on Black, F, Scholes, M (1973) ‘The Pricing Options and Corporate Liabilities’, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol.81, No. 3, The University of Chicago Press.

5.The formula is based on Dirac, P (1948, 1958) The Principles Of Quantum Mechanics (4th edition) Oxford University Press.

“Truth is the thing that follows us from beginning to end, and reality should have always run parallel to our truth.�

Book

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Book I: Somewhere in the rural area during the late medieval period.

Sylvan ghosts were awaken at dawn, when the sun gave rays to the ridges of mountains, but they may haven’t known whether this was by the reflections of spumes and crests of waves that the ocean was diminutive from them, because the things were felt much beamed on their eyes to be dazzled as well as they were the roving caravans, though they didn’t lose their ways to where would foster their cultivation, if it was the beginning of the day or the end of the night, then Lato, who was the youngest child of the Bobkobs sniveled a bit in Tanya’s breast. This middle aged woman was Alan’s wife, albeit she had already passed her fertility of her womb, her kerchief that was shouldered to cover her torso was as if the distended stomach that was spat by her husband to hush their infant, and her response was substituted by her vain maundering to whom hadn’t yet acquired his empathy,‘They are being still hampered in the morning.’ Despite of this, she threw her sight to where their goats were grazed on, and ordered her eldest

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daughter, Sasha, to have the rusty silver cup that was tinny in her hand.

While the toddler’s tonsil was washed by the earliest milk, his indulgent chirps had already been appeared as negligible to Alan, he driveled to his old fellow, Ben with his family, who had strived for the peak together a night before,‘That is our fifth, but those mad cries always rile me up, those are utterly their defiant yarns against hours and the canon of quadruples.’ Should his lips have been required any more than a moment of unwinding to react to his mate, slothfully, his cask was back and forth, without his comprehension what his ears caught then, nonetheless, Alan,‘Is that a drip of deviled honey in it? Is it what our bulls would get a wrong head, too?’ Ben’s towel cap was about to be fallen, the patterned rivers and petals of asters were obvious to imagine that those folk motifs had been woven by his wife Nez in their previous manor where had been no better except abandonment of the land, as long as they were a nomad with their livestock, and these capricious circumstances as if the shawls of monads that were perpetually transforming themselves throughout a year, they had ever taken expeditions in order to find the spring or summer, autumn … such a flow of time, if these hadn’t been vouchsafed to where they had been.

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His cap was fixed, when it was dastardly nudged into the slab behind without using his hands, and he said,‘Gobken’s study where I once entered had the bundles of maps in his shelves, the ocean and continents were spread on the sheets, what were those for? Because the maps shown all the same, the ocean and continents. What was the difference among them, he could be enough with only one?’

‘Parchment is decomposed, someday.’

‘No, no, Gobken was not the crippled bailiff, but it was only that his acres were debilitated.’

At this time, Lato was snoozing in his mouth ajar, and the whites of his eyes were faintly visible, thus, Tanya raised her voice to them, she was definitely encouraged by her successful appeasement of her little one.‘Gobken put many numbers on the maps, and when those were filled with his scrawls, he needed another. He has ever told me that the peasants are able to get a sniff of the optimal place, our final foremost would be where we would begin.’ The spasmodic onslaught, she was smitten, and as she began to weep as if her hiccups, Ben renounced his sight from his neighbor’s scuffle, and escaped to Colli whose foot-wraps were neatly arranged to protect his ankles, whether those were by his own dexterity in his ten years old age, realistically, he had been in full faith during their xiii

struggle to ascend the rugged terrain, with Sasha, in order to navigate her towards the venial screes, who was tampering with the nipples of their ewe, then.

‘What have you got?’ His father was prickly eased.‘I have got a red berry over there, it was kept under the limpid water in its own tint’ Colli explained without a pause in his chewing.

As a matter of fact, this child was seemingly grown his indigenous sense, edible or inedible, the habitat of his puny corporeality, but it was proved by the factual status as he was survived, irrespective of the primeval vanity. ‘Ah, a lad becomes soon familiar with soil wherever he is, which means he is not the son of beasts and I am not the son of fish.’

‘That would be the point, when my soul was swaddled by the native earth, I could learn the mind of serfdom, of course, I had my plain nut to be taught by Gobken, his tricky chauvinism, as a result, I took part in a fight with the village, so peculiar it was, because it was just before I was going to forsake there.’ His tipsy litany induced the scion’s curiosity.‘Why? Were you too much to stay? If so, I shall be a cavalryman in another place.’

‘No, you don’t, my brat.’ Alan scowled at him. ‘Hussar’s dolman, his ruffled mantle on the briny shore, when he stepped onto the bridge towards his vessel…this is the whistle for all xiv

males to brag about.’ Meanwhile, there was someone who seized Ben’s cascade, who romped mellifluous epic, as soon as he heard the cumbersome steps, it might have been that he was still in his queer fantasy, but his wife, Nez, her corpulent physique, she tugged up her skirt around her immense waist, in order to bestride over his torso to examine the stench of his mouth,‘What have you been drinking? Our cubs may stray for your wretched habit.’ A frail muscle of his poor health couldn’t hunker, but Alan,‘Hey, wench, the river was found by my kid.’

‘Are you serious? I have been for miles with this abominable fat of mine. Heck!’ Nez tossed coins to Colli, and he gave these to his mother who was immediately recovered from her sniff, as the child settled the cask inside the jug,‘Lad, you shall bath it, bath it to the gills, and the piscine fools get their woozy swim.’ Nonetheless, it was too heavy to carry on his shoulder, thereafter, he propped it on his stomach by his full effort, and there was no word to his father. The cattle were fed, incessantly twitching their teeth, but those eyes exhibited their instinctive apoplexy, and the farmer’s resembled platitude as a flock, he sent his son.

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It was the time when the sun was erected to the pinnacle, the windmill emerged as a lighthouse in pasture, the wood arms swooshed the air, the zephyr in the afternoon rustled tenderly Sasha’s tunic that was coarsely made, and induced her consternation as though it was delayed by its own will, she didn’t know why her exhaustion was relieved, as Alan said,‘On behalf of our Lord, ergo, not the cross, but that is the thing to tell us our reach.’ All the conglomerates laughed for his joke as well as for their achievement, their creased demeanor, they were sitting on the ground, and they had yet been seared under the glimmer above.

The sheds in the yard were located in nearly 200 acres, and those had already been occupied with whom were in a siesta, the hut in front of the manor house spewed the throng in length, the Bobkobs were interspersed in it, until the welkin arch was slightly dyed in the ochre hue.

The entrance of the log shack was narrow in contrast to the columned stately construction on the rare that was encompassed by the sophisticated cabins with the cozy patios, and the male inside who was in his silk pantaloons introduced himself as he was their bailiff to be in this place for their registration, he would be called, Losif. The system of their governance xvi

was instructed that consequently allocated 130 acres to them within the near proximity from the mansion where their overseer, Timofei resided, accordingly, as there was no guild among the peasants, the rigid feudalism was implemented over the region, and each tillage was harrowed by the group to fulfill the demand, moreover, albeit the tenancy was maintained for the regular farmers, as the seasonal nomads, they were accommodated the dormitory next to their mates, Dolga and his wife Liza, with Motom who was their stripling. All of them were not required rent, and their wage would be paid annually or in arrears by request, $10 for each male whose age was more than fifteen years old, $7 for a female and the younger child, additionally, the leftover could be at their disposal, except in the case of failure to finish their task, the lack was deducted from their earnings with 15% of state tax.

These conditions would offset $35 per year for rent and higher tax payment that Alan used to spend under the previous supervision, but instead of the added surplus, there was the loss of the manpower for $7, because Colli had never returned since he had gone to the river, equally, Ben whom Losif had reckoned his infirmity, thus they had continued a journey,‘God’s wrath may be vexed to fall His birch onto us, her cursed coins…’ Alan’s discomfiture was intensified, when he

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was finally questioned their literacy, if the child had been there, they could have been favored.

All the members followed the bailiff, and it was the opportunity for Alan during the excursion to recover from his drippy contrite, since the developed status of agriculture was obvious, such as, the stone walled storage with the pit to the basement cellar for bacon, cheese, and the firmly pegged cabin next to the smokehouse, those were thatched to be protected from the bad weather.

In ahead of a block of their residence, they witnessed the goatee guy, Timofei, at the portal of the mansion house smaller than the manor, it was compactly arranged as the owner himself in his khaki cotton garb, his sharp chin was obliquely squirmed to twinkle,‘You will have cups for your dinner to repose from fatigue, and I am sorry to say that you had to abandon your land, but know it, I am a capable owner. Bless our field for futility and bloom.’ The overseer shut the door, there was nothing to be remained after him, silently, Alan looked up the bricked chimney where would be their dwelling though, no one could estimate how long they would live there.

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would be enjoyed a little opulence with the tankards, until her daughter altered herself to be clad in the balloon sleeved camisole, exquisitely, the modest leaves were stitched on it, then they would invite their new associates in the evening.

When their appetite was gratified by the dipped loaves of fondue, Alan wiped his finger to have ginger mead, and glanced at Motom for the reminiscence of Colli, but the one was elder than him, as he said, fifteen in the year, thus, his abstinent rapport was imposed on his custodian, and asked him whether the place would deliver any meat, as they kept a hefty ram. He was acknowledged that those would be on the hoof in the adjacent region where they had ever lived, thus he would offer it to Losif who would dispatch it to the market, and if it was sold, he could receive percentage of the price, in fact, the breeding and process were done there.

‘What about capons?’

‘You can do by yourselves, and you sell directly to the owners around this area.’

‘It should be during our affordable month. How much are we taken?’

‘I don’t know, because I couldn’t read their estimation.’

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‘It may be the same as before, but Dad, we need not to pay rent.’ Yoll.

‘How could you notice?’

‘Because they have many lands for the peasants.’

‘Because they have many lands for the peasants.’ His heir’s competence was suddenly revealed, and his fitful joy to be a parrot. ‘That is true, yes, indeed, a wealthy field may give happiness to our lives, our homeland was merely for the pig trinkets.’ Whereas the fact was that Yoll was a puerile child, he persisted in his prattle but the grasp of the mature intermittent laced up by the breadwinner of their neighbors, and as a touch of alcohol tinted his sister’s cheeks, she performed native folklore with her scraggy lute nobody had ever seen, though his voice was trounced, especially by the accompanied tambourine by Motom.‘I discovered Colli’s amulet, a wring of turquoise beads on the riverside, it was among heathers sprawled from the swamp, that was my dream last night, my mojo dream.’ Concomitantly, everything was ceased by a bawl from the attic where others stayed,‘Silence for tomorrow!

Shut up!’

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When the seed-lips were held by the farmers, it was the spring, and their arable acres were sowed in order, Alan turned his plough at the headland, anyway, it had been so far, no problem of their production, yet in this scorching humid weather, his palms that gripped a hoe streaked sweat. The nearest pond was covered by the peat moss, it nurtured forest animals, the water was carried from the river in somewhere, as they had ever passed plentiful stream during their trek.

Fortunately, the loamy soil seldom dried up, the essence was plump because of the deeply segmented moist constitution, hence silica was enabled to dissolve thoroughly as a potent compost, and was mixed with organic matter, carbon, oxygen, and so on, all of these were prerequisite to sustain photosynthesized life on the Earth, usually, such harmony was in agrarian realm conveyed by their cattle, as Dolga tethered on the horse-sled for another strip.

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In the course of the morning before noon, the female members organized the scullery to prepare for lunch, Tanya boiled the ingredients in a pan, and she stretched herself from the stove to warn her daughter as she discovered a bizarre change of her midriff,‘It is only just our own responsibility to keep diet by ourselves, otherwise, the sun and stones, everything would get to be hell of our toil.’

Sasha pretended to withdraw into where Lato’s crib was, but it was her escape from what she couldn’t endure, since the woman in their next door was also in place, Liza was brisk in her plebeian taste, no matter to mention,‘Nowadays, Motom has been utterly mesmerized by her rug, when she sits for a spindle.’

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Sasha nipped off a berry from the juniper twig, the malleable extension enunciated unsteady autonomy in the air of the yard, she rubbed it on her linsey-woolsey apron, and thought that she would have liked rather the coloring chore, such as for muslin dress, it would have been touched a bale of cotton, and her service could have been adored by the sovereign, as she had once witnessed the regal parade in her childhood, and Colli had ever taught her that in beyond the sea, there had been the countries where the flower bulbs had been much popular than oats.

She had cherished her little brother more than others, he had been distinctively wise and diligent, thereby, at this time, she couldn’t ignore the guy in his fur cap whose silhouette conjured up the apparition of her loved one. Motom was standing at her side, his stout leather belt, as if he was always on the edge of the scaffold, whenever he fouled up in every occasion, anyhow, she shouldn’t have had a word with him, then, as before, it had happened after they had been released from their drudgery within the fact that life had been the perennial conservation, whether it had been confined in this norm.‘Don’t run, Sasha, please, don’t run!’ Nevertheless, she dashed to the pantry adjacent to the scullery, and hid her ranting breath, she was actually quailed by him, if he would kill her, someday.

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The vernal harvest was mightily successful to suffice the mill house, and profuse amount of haystacks were scaled as a coppice allover the ranch, in order to reap cereal, all the farmers were under the clear sky, including Sasha, who gained her weight to the degree that she was hardly to hunch without a shaft, but her slim jaw belonged to a 17 years old damsel, didn’t have any change, ‘What is your indolence? You can’t be swift, you are becoming unable to preen yourself, you may be wrecked beneath quadruples forever, without any matrimony.’

Her father was walking towards where she was, with Quga on the wagon that was pulled by him, the speechless cherub was utterly out of his gist what was the harangue inflicted his sister, and his innocent smile displayed second to none to suit the uttermost joy of the rich greens, but Tanya, a pang of lymphatic tremor slushed her, subsequently, she was impelled to gambol, somewhat miserably caricatured, Quga was expecting her commendation.

Sasha observed them, as if she merely gave up her life, her mother was the miserable servant than as his spouse, if they were like dung of immortal, ironically, there could be a different expression as manure for a crop. Alan frivolously wagged to her, whether he had already negated what he had just said to her, or he was fudged on his awkward destiny,‘You shall show me much vigorous mien as we can be paid beforehand, I xxiv

am grateful for a quarter of annual we need now, let’s visit our overseer.’

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There was a plentiful vineyard beside the mansion house that Alan hadn’t been aware in his first time after the lengthy trudge, they stroked off their powdery boots in front of the gate, the bailiff ushered the family to the living room through the spacious hall, musty smell, cold air, the candelabras accentuated the ornamented walls.

As soon as they met the overseer,‘I am afraid, despite you have been in hustle, I have been borrowing your scion, we were in the market, he can be an excellent farmer in the future.’

‘Dad, I saw many herds that were sold there, the merchants are really kind as they well-nigh always buy the cubs with their parents.’ Yoll was served a piece of rice cake and a cup of herbal tea, the overseer rustled his hair,‘I like you, I like you the sapient child, tell your father more about what you did see.’

‘There was a plethora of people, papers were stuck on the table, and the cattle on the podium. Those were for the winter, but I learnt that we wouldn’t be ready for it, because of our gentle climate. And I thought that they could work in advance, if they were paid much frequently as well as could have a better granary like us.’

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‘Even though it is impossible to believe that this little child is able to speculate the floating price, it is actually depended on the conditions of yields. Realistically, we have also pessimistic months, not the winter, but it is begun from rainy June to September, thus we purchase crops abroad, if we need, by the spot price determined at the time of trade. In this regard, you have taken sagacious choice with us, a promissory note for $10, I hope it to be correct.’

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Pelting shower in June detracted them everyday, after humble meals, Alan embarked on blaming Tanya,‘Is this for a male parent to discover?’ He indicated Sasha’s swelled pinafore,‘I am not sure, I am not.’ she gibbered. ‘Mom, what are you scared? You know that new farmers came in the afternoon, and we can reduce our slog.’

‘I am asking, what is this?’

‘I’ve got fat.’

He went outside where was screened by stultifying mists, and such equanimity was penetrated into his goaded mind. On the knob, his fibula had hooked the handle of the pitcher, and the stream of water had been flown out, he had been annoyed because of the inconvenience made by his wife why she had been bothered to put those underneath.

He visited Dolga, who informed him about the arrived nomads, they were amounted to fifty allocated to the different dormitory, Liza and Motom were participating in their first day.‘They are our former natives, they may increase our production, due to the fact that we have to sell our grain to their homeland whose soil exposes less than the inferior corn.

When we lived there, it was Motom to suggest to me the best way that would be to escape, let you know the abominable comxxviii

merce, it was not only for the dismal supplies, but also if we bought groceries, those consumed our cost twice or triple than here, moreover, the devoid of meat made restriction on us, because the sovereign had already sold it to other countries.’

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The distant abode poured out intimate lantern-maroon, the insipid liqueur proved their hospitality to the settlers, Liza and other female peasants were merry, being encircled by their guys whose instruments were much variant than Sasha had ever played, banjoes, flutes, and harmonicas, some of their children slept on their knees, then the music was paused. And Motom,‘Our fatherland used to buy steeds and weapons, but we couldn’t.’ Immediately, one young lady approached him, and her broad scarf that covered her bodice entwined him, as it was embroidered tendrils, he was as though placated by mythical force.

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On the next day, Alan met with them during the announcement from the overseer, regarding the demand for the month,‘The alliance with the region has been dealt by increasing mutual trade, as our production has been enough affordable, the principal order is going to be maintained without any concern, your wage, and so forth, we shall like to launch our future scheme that can be the forward exchange.

The point is that the herald was recently brought to tell us about the discovered durable seeds, the advent of hybridization for the tough wheat has been studied by one youth under the bordering suzerain, and we are going to import those henceforth, which would gradually substitute our original pips.’ While the overseer continued to stipulate, Alan glimpsed Motom, who pitched unfathomable odium, and snickered as the overseer said,‘We are able to establish the significant methodology by means of rationalization that is with adaptable nature of our land, why the river is there, why the mountain and forest are located in specified topography, then, the reason of qualitative aspects of yield, this can improve our cultivation.’

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A few months had gone by, nothing had been unusual or shall it have been no excessive suffering, but the Bobkobs had been isolated from the rest of the relation, the next door that had been occupied by Dolga’s family had frequently casted dim glow, since they had been relished in another lodging out of their work.

One day, Alan went to the warehouse where the novel seeds abroad were stored, but unexpectedly, he perceived the feisty fringe, by one thorny shadow, barely before his reach, Motom was swinging the tarnished key to the padlock, it firmly locked the door,‘Have you been notified that our wages are going to be levied 18% tax at the end of this year, because the import devours the inflated tariff, we can’t pay it, we need not to pay, because we don’t use foreign seeds.’

‘However, those assist our task.’

‘If there is a lack, this is to be fulfilled, we have ever survived by this way.’

‘Have you ever thought about my daughter?’

‘She devotes to the guy as me.’

‘No, she doesn’t.’

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There was a simple notion as a nomad, if the land was no good, they could move out, the increased expenditure would shrink their benefit, as well as for Sasha, she had to be unyoked from the blasphemy.

No mind of guilt without any notice, and this was the accustomed decision among them, furthermore, there could be no odds in the earlier of autumn when the peasants were prevailed for their better employment.‘We gonna climb the northern summit, and attain where the seeds were born.’ Alan and Yoll loaded their furniture and a wisp of food on the wagon, then, the cart was driven by Tanya with Quga, Sasha and Lato were respited on it, ‘Mother, I can walk.’ She whispered in the dark.

Under the sparse moonlight thrown to the caravan, the bony clouds in the hemisphere were gliding as though following their burdensome motion with the rattle of wheels, yet,‘Sasha!’ Tanya’s shriek, whereas she had already lost her conscious, a smear of her blood was stirred on the wooden deck.

‘Shuu!’ The husband interrupted his wife,‘You should return to Timofei, and tell him that I alone disappeared at midnight, thus you were in search for me.’

‘Dad… Alan …’

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‘Yoll, mount the straw next to your sister, and carry our things to there.’

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The flow of the river in higher latitude was clear after the summer, when Alan shivered, the sun rose in the sky, the frontier gate was opened as he told the guards that he would enter the land for his work, since the place was enough reputable for the discovery, he was not treated as a runaway.

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It took no time for Alan to obtain his paced routine, and the briar in the garden pleased him, whenever he could spot the blooming petals, he did so, and this was utterly evident in the province where was released from the cyclical torment by their innovative sowing.

During the afternoon of the day, the message was arrived beyond the boundary, all the farmers rushed into the city, and the injured emissary was mobbed en masse,‘Mutiny subverted the southern house.’ Alan tumultuously turned to where he had ever deserted, the shadowy smoke was swallowing the far-flung dystopia, then, there was a gallop of horse,‘Away, away!’ Two stallions rapidly catapulted toward the portcullis, the noble patriarch in his red sash slapped it with his jodhpurs, being followed by the juvenile who wore a velvety waistcoat.

‘Colli!’ The equestrian neighed as it was hitched for a moment, and he saw, exactly, the nostalgic nascent visage, if it had been no death knell on the river, regardless, the austere order was beseeched, ‘Alan, make our way to His Majesty!’

(The end of Book I)

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Book

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Book II: Somewhere in the capital city during the earlier of the 20th century.

The tenacious snow, even the city that was accustomed to the crystalized flakes was in the flurry ethereal, the lasting wafts had been since a night before, for the upholstered ground in white, Alan Berner who was the soldier snuggled himself under the trench coat, and he went outside to shovel in front of his row house, the distant factories were puffing the grey smoke in the industrialized city, then the church bell pealed for the time of the morning troop.

Alan had been born in the rural area where the lee of mountainous terrain hid his nostalgia during the days in the capital, he had been the proud son as the descendent of the bourgeois peasants who had ever survived the agrarian evolution, the competitive production on the fertile soil, the rapid progress of horticulture, their onerous accomplishment of labor had expanded their tillage every year.

However, the state demand had become utterly out of hand, due to the price control for the loom of the war, the huge xxxviii

inflation more than 120% had inflicted over the whole population of the country, despite the increased values of their crops, all the prerequisites for the yields, such as the lease of tractors, had triggered the deficit, and it had been one month before, one day, one guy who had been delegated from the city council had visited his family to organize the acres to be the collective use,“How can we get over the surging price within the determined reality that the war has been certainly ongoing destiny?”

The strain had been insinuated under the commissioner’s beret that had shaded his upper visage, and only his lips had been fidgeted, he had spread the official documents on the wooden table, his nappa mittens had been taken off, when he had been absolved from the thickset attire, he had introduced himself as Malachi,“I work for Bongway’s cabinet, our central government has been precarious enough that our new policy on the independent farmers would be impartial, both your ease and pain.”

“We have so far, scraped a living by the discounted direct lease.” Alan’s brother had entreated, but the administrator had made arbitration,“Our fair deal won’t betray you, I suppose, considering the tax rebate on the land, and fertilizers against the bad weather, as the wholesome foothold assures

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our prosperity. To be accurate, this centralization is not the total requisition of your land.”

Alan had glanced his brother, who had already hatched his concession, nonetheless, he hadn’t yet ameliorated his petulancy the official had jostled through,“There can be also the new employment, due to the intensified production.”

“I may not know the contrary, as the war takes our men.”

“They would be brought there but a conscription.”

“Alan?”

“How can I be?” His inquiry hadn’t been obtruded by the bashful relatives whose blushed cheeks in the living room, not because of the robust flare from the fireplace,“The soldier is classified as our general recruitment, which means you will enroll in the local office, then, you are deployed.”

Without the further communication, Malachi had concluded the day,“You work for our nation, then the lever is set forward, equally the lever should be turned back to you in some degree, for instance, for your wealth and security, as our enchantment for the lever to be pushed, again, this is regarded as the state.”

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Albeit Alan’s lace-ups were occasionally snared on the slushy pavement, he was trudging the street, the highly raised antennas embodied the interminable modernization, the telegraph offices, banks, such bricks and mortars, evidently, the trade building that had been lately constructed was casting the ebullient aura, even though the preparation for the battle, the war finance suppressed the people, their vivid hope formed the secure value of, specifically the service sector in their astonishing growth, the pedestrians whose whiff of perfume a la mode, when they opened the foyer, the rattling typewriters inside, before the tram station, Alan just missed it as the chime cricked to depart.

‘Is that going to be the phony war?’ After he caught the next, he stood on the step of the carriage, since he deliberately abstained from a slouch during his commute, in order to sustain sturdy health, and his uniform was intended by a couple of passengers, their discussions were sparsely perceivable, but he was aware the capricious reaction among the people as the farmer’s son, or the son of the country as a soldier.

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On his arrival to the office, the opaque glass shield gave him a thin envelope from the slot, under the restriction that the letters and parcels, all the mails to the employees were controlled by the administration, the ejected rackety paper was immediately assured by him, the clumsy handwriting from his home, so that he squeezed it into his sack, and kept it in his locker.

The spacious cobblestones feigned to have been randomly arranged, yet maintained the aesthetic stability with the files of men, the military members congregated every morning at dawn, their identification numbers were howled to verify the federation until they were led to the riverside whose torrent was flown throughout the city, the marching cavalries were ushered along the destined route, indeed, it was thought to be within the fortuitous perfection that the constancy of their gaitered feet, the geometric accuracy with the law of free-motion, the regulation would make liberty by the simple praxis, which they were ultimately returned to where they had come from.

Alan had selected the army, if all the options of life would establish the causal relation under the rules to govern every moment.

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matter to shoot up, strong and persistent, the frosty mist was diffracted in placidity, albeit all the same kind had already emaciated and perished down to be buried beneath the windy earth.

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The stove in the cloakroom was the emollient of Alan’s fingers, the other members left to the canteen before their training in the afternoon, he read the letter from his brother, the binding rays from the sash window exposed the tiny rills on the pen, to cease their lamentation, the ink was unsteadily blemished,“They buy our grain far below the cost, the sovereign aid to our toil almost makes no sense, we live for a day, but we can save nothing for tomorrow, and we must struggle for the futile task. The travel expense is unaffordable to urge our ease, Alan, my brother, we need you.”

The parchment was folded in his pocket, and he was with his unbending decision, regarding his family’s claim, then, he looked for his senior officer in the jammed mess hall where all of his colleagues were silently savoring their victuals, but he had to utter, which would be too resonant to be confined under the ceiling, ‘Sir.’ The one fetched his final dip of his flatware in the casserole, he pinched a cup of water,‘Yes.’ Indifference of other members encouraged his attention to his advise that the employees of his division were allowed to take part in the union assembly at the end of every month, the prime minister and his deputy would be there, thus he would be able to procure the chance of his direct petition.‘The reputable commander has been recently nominated, who is the arduous person for the local matter, we call him Malachi.’ xliv

The glass pane of the night tram made mysterious segregation from the outside world in a frozen climate, when Alan rubbed his view, the hues of illuminations displayed the tall figures of street lumps on the bereft sidewalk, except only few people for their return, as well as the inner vacancy, it was the situation until the sudden increase of parked automobiles and horse carriages in the venue that the congress building presided over, the castle was capacitated for more than five hundred people, but interestingly, the scale didn’t undermine him, since his admiration for the traceable civil foundation, the portico was buttressed by the austere columns, and as if they were the story tellers, the emblazoned warriors were beholding the saga under their chivalric authority.

The entrance was secured by the two guards who may have belonged to the neighboring borough, as there was no interception to pass through, he was abruptly beamed by the immense chandelier, the theater–like hall, the national flags supervised all the participants, he observed the mezzanine at first, and was dazzled the golden balustrades, when he restored his sight, it was fortunate as he could find his position in the middle.

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The entry of Malachi in his general commander’s outfit, stirred a moment of quietude in the gallery, he sat for his chair onstage, and hooked the bridges of his glasses around his ears, in order to examine the agenda of the evening, the stacked documents were taken from his attaché case, and after for a while, the prime minister, Alan Bongway appeared from the creaking back door that was reverberating, as the commander stood, so did all the ones in present.

As the typical process of the congress, the clamors were from the representatives who occupied the top front, such as a personage of each corporation, factory, and the trade union, they proceeded their arguments with the state committee, and these were handled by Bongway, his shrewd, exaggeratedly gestured eloquence, he was enough to convince the inquisitors, after the deputy’s précis. He was mainly sketching a note, but his pen was paused on the desk, when the spokesman of the stock market raised his hand.

‘The market has been balanced so far, by both our state and private business, but nowadays, the collective issue has been dominating our trade, thus we would like to be acknowledged the governmental estimation on… even on the vulnerability of our preservation, whether for this war, the place is going to suffer the forced closure, in other words, the trade would be abolished.’ The deputy’s compassion was not vouchsafed to xlvi

the one’s agony, instead, his instant glib,‘It has been beyond our ken, it would depend on social conditions, and we shouldn’t be speculative based on our old experience that is the anachronistic cynicism.’

‘Not only the market, but our whole economy has earned the preparatory finance for the war by the war, and do you suppose that this would be discontinued because of the war?’

The quizzical prime minister wryly implied neither his approval nor reproach.‘However, the inveterate loss and damage engender our solidarity whether we would be deprived, as it is exactly the war, and I shall be discerned how our contingencies will be protected.’ Malachi tensed his voice,‘No need to increase your obsessive distress that would be contagious over the entire economy, and such timidity disorders our people, there is only the fact that we win, we can reward your slog, and finally, the resurrection from all the detriments, even the newspapers are forbidden to report their abstractions, because we live in this nation, and we are sufficient to be informed.’

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had heavily relied on the moves between the distant fields, it had insisted on both physical and mental stamina to sustain themselves, whereas munitions had been by the prowess of the qualified soldiers for the battle strata.

His memory and knowledge of the service propelled his guts to plead, then the deputy pointed at him, his seat clattered, yet he was wriggled only for the introduction, when the letter from his home was opened to be read out, “…. the government eagerly promotes how beneficial the dignified peasants are for the collective role, nonetheless, they have never ever ingested that farmers live also as a private citizen to form the nation.”

‘Your family wants us to reduce their costs, am I correct?’

Malachi did include no irony, and the prime minister mildly preached his precept to be sanctified by all the audience,‘If there was 500kg of private assets as the grain in the warehouse, for example, the one bought 50kg, and he became the owner of 10%, but if the plague occurred, how could the original owner give his partner the promised 10%? It would be for the pleasure of mutual survival, 10% belonged to the one, the rest of the amount was his, the peace of mind for our capital, ipso facto, such equanimity requires the proof and practice, tell your family that we should apologize for our delay, since there has yet been no time for us.’ xlviii

‘How can it be the proof? How does the practice become evident as our ideal?’

‘Ideal?’ The deputy emulated the edge of Alan’s remark, and questioned him,‘Why have you been our soldier?’ ‘…’

‘Because you are to learn it. Aren’t you unable to abide with our promise by your equal wisdom, which has ever assured you, then, as your choice, in lieu of reaping the harvest that is also consumed by you, for your tempting providence?’

The minor applause to Malachi was gradually bolstered to the finale.

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When the remote summits divested their bleached mantles, the leafy panorama rimmed the landscape, the severe frosts were dissolved to the dews in daybreak, the winter was withdrawn, and the military file continued to throng downstream that the replete ebb and flow, it was the time, the inflation rate exceeded nearly 130%, tax was added plus 2.5%, the harsh condition was burdened on the soldiers who couldn’t spend even for a tube of shaving cream but the supply from the office, within the limited amount.

One day, Alan received the order to relocate his abode to the state lodging, a morsel of dry bread was his final crumb on the cordial oak counter, the tap above the sink was motionless, he firmly locked the door,“Rent� had already been stuck on it.

The heavy duffle bag made dissonant racket on his way to the nearest station, but there were no cackles from the shutters of the stores to invite their customers, and it had been the ominous bane in the region where the sparkling cacophony had been faded for those months, as they had lost their owners.

While the platform of the public transport provided him with his better glimpse as a podium that the financial district, the crests of the banks and trade building were exhibited, l

there was no incandescence on the day, the area was feebly subdued, under the bleak empyrean, the concrete walls miserably evinced the sullen dismay, thereafter, he set to inspect the site.

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The exclusives were disseminated by the man who was in the portal of the trade building, the people flocked to encrust him whose recitation was accentuated to wail the urgent distribution, and the gate was adamantly bolted, but sorely, the statues of nymphs on the granite plinths, they were playful by exchanging the stream of faith. He obtained the paper informed the chaotic frenzy since a night before, the spokesman had committed suicide, as well as the closure of the market after his body had been discovered on shore. It was a gruesome portent whilst the pulsation of time.

Alan rushed into the telegraph office, the tailored males were shoving each other, the constant strikes of typewriters, the panting breath was not only him, despite of this, their queue was unravelled for his uniform,‘Give the way to the national reserve!’

The sheet of paper was rolled out as he spoke,‘...The situation has been all over the area.’

‘How would you like the receiver?’ ‘…’

‘To…To Malachi.’

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A half a month had gone by since the incident, as if it had already been forgotten, the urban area was recovering the robust vitality, and a plethora of clients conducted their financial transactions. Correspondingly, Alan was promoted to learn the command of a tank that he was specially talented in his small tall to submerge himself into the cubbyhole on the gigantic combat hull, precisely, there would be a little what human could do after all, if this iron colossus burst his rage.

For his operation on the day, a daub of oily mud and the cataract of his perspiration, these consumed excessive amount of soap fragmented into the bath drain, but it was too tiny to wait for the regular provision, thus he got down to the street during the dusky surreal hour, the faint sloth after the exercise, the lukewarm remnant in his body was predisposed to the billow of the thoroughfare in euphoric levity.

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The wistful cheer of the grocery parlors that mustered the palpable fantasy, the intensely vivid attachment pigmented the beer advertisement on the arcade, it radiantly seduced the visitors to purchase the product.

Alan went under the awning for what he needed, and he was astounded by all the goods that didn’t have a price tag.

‘Are you the soldier of Malachi? What would you like?’ As he asked for a long packet of soap, the owner wrapped it with the abrasive calfskin, and enticed him to add bread and milk, moreover a set of razors and tobacco into his sackcloth,‘I can’t buy those.’

‘Haven’t you yet been noticed that we have no longer paid exorbitant tax, and the public employees can make consumption by free, if we reckon their demand as adequate for their work, the goods are delivered to them, instead, their services are available to us without any cost, such as banks and railways. All the business in this nation has been conducted in a system of barter, hence the value is estimated by us, from the producers to the merchants, fortunately, this mode has never been in vain at all. Malachi declared in the congress last month,“My trust for our people”’ ‘I appreciate.’

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Alan consolidated his plan to join the assembly, once more, within the nearest opportunity.

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The senate house in the public square, there was the diminished number of participants, and the absence was eerily reflected in the evening. The shadows of the cables, those were entwined in the translucent air to actualize the development under the lure of moonlight, but being disturbed by nothing, or rather being veiled by nothing, such as the neighs of the quadruples, the purrs of the wheels engines, the antithetical expression of antiquity, the progression of an epoch was surely diverted the way to be restored, Alan felt anomalous nervousness amidst the spurred steps and strenuous guards.

Malachi was impressed as he had got a waned jaw, whether it had been because of his enervation, the commander was upright from the seat as Bongway came, hence everyone as well. ‘Malachi!’ The spasmodic shout was swooshed by one of the sentries, under the national banner within the reach to the stage, despite the sharp terror petrified Alan, he managed to keep himself to witness the bullseye, who nonchalantly ignored, and his head slightly nodded, in order to settle back his buttocks, yet the bullet was blasted at him, then, it paltry pricked through only a furry inch. After the oblivious tinge, nagging, blissful response was snickered on his impenetrable face. lvi

‘Hold!’ Bongway shrilled to all of his soldiers, the exasperated traitor whose wicked demise, was arrested in snatches, and his gun pierced the highly vaulted cobalt fresco on the brink of the battering iron truncheons, he was roped even without an infinitesimal thud.

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For the turgid night, Alan’s sweaty skin was enduring the top sheet in the lower bunk of the shared dormitory, though the breeze was occasionally from the window ajar, he saw a fly on the opposite side of the insect shield, then the chilly drift swaddled him, the snoozing room mate turned his back whom Alan hadn’t ever acquainted with. When the sallow hours elapsed at midnight, the fervid alarm squealed through the camp, the men hurriedly set in uniform and fastened handguns to their girths.

‘Move!’ The astute command was absorbed into the hemisphere where heavenly beings twinkled, as if those were only the falsified eternity, the troopers were collected on the faceless cobbles, Alan was allocated to one of the squadrons that were spearheading in convoy toward the state edifice. At the delta of the path, they merged with other groups, the river and sea spewed the scarlet tongues as a beacon to all the naval ports and public buildings of the central district.

The facade was fortified by nearly a thousand of soldiers whom Alan was familiar with several of them, who had been exactly on duty during the assembly, but then, the concomitant soles at once, their salutations were assigned to testify their confederacy.

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The empty hall under the dim effulgence unfurled the turbulent dust, the second order was followed by the reserved consent within the august serenity. While the clock took a round, those innumerable official documents were disposed outside, which were put in flames to gush out the burning gales, until those were reduced to ashes by the crimsoned valediction, by the men of procession.

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The sun was heaved into the land, Alan dreamt in his slumber that he served next to Malachi and the spokesman of the stock house, who was said to have killed himself. This was in the army headquarter, Bongway had been captured in exile and brought there, Malachi instigated,‘Is there any mercy bestowed upon you, a dejected fugitive to our nation?’ ‘…?’

‘There has ever been no such state that you have believed to exist, or rather can you testify it?’ The menacing reality beleaguered him,‘What would you like to be your desire?’

‘My edict doesn’t afflict the wrecked stray, you shall return to your home to live in peace, as if nothing has ever happened to you.’

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On the next day during the plain morning, the cinders of the fireworks were shrunk to the dampen squibs, the people were bespattering the water to clean those up.

The march was no longer taken place, but all the members met in the stony plaza where had ever been the estuary of every regeneration, and there was the unwieldy speaker that was wired to the radio, the squeaky wave disruption, the soldiers in akimbo, the official broadcast was becoming audible. ‘These my honorable words that celebrate our day, are dedicated to our people. My name is Malachi Bobkob, I am the chief commander of this nation, and hope to be the prime minister, who can be elected by you, under your consideration if I had not been with you, if it had been dealt by others, what the consequence would have been, your vote is the evidence of your justice, how you do live, how you do your daily labor.

On behalf of our future leader of this country, I have signed a treaty for the everlasting armistice with the state that would have been our foe, the trade tariffs and barriers are suspended. There is no more war coming onto us, it has been as if the beautiful kaleidoscope during our somnolence, and we, the people of this nation are awakening from it to be the graceful memory. However, I will still pray for our bonanza, a loss of 100, but if the defeat makes a loss, 1000, is there anyone who

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can obtain 900? This should be of you, and the victory is not only as a result of war.’ (The end of Book II)

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Book III: In 1990Chapter I: Fldora Power

The TV camera for the most popular news program was preparing for the spot to Quent, who had ever dubbed the prominent venture capitalists of the imperial financial firm, W’d Morale, as “W’d Ventures” he was 35 years old, the dark cyan suit roughly appareled him, and his wavy shoulder length was tied in his back, then Dieter Sanchez, the chairman of W’d Morale, with Branden Bongway, the private owner of Fldora Power, came the studio, Sanchez was well-built in his faithful deed, and he gently patted Branden’s shoulder to the seat in front of the interviewer, before he served himself. During their casual preliminary for a few minutes, the modest female in her 40’s appeared, so that Quent slanted his neck backward in his rapport to her,‘Johanna, you know, we’re gonna be watched by the millions.’ She shrugged to react with her instant dimples, and when she was about to make jocular retaliation, every thing was ready to commence the broadcast, the presenter was zoomed on the monitor,‘Today’s Finance of Your World, we are focusing on one of the largest scale of IPOs, Fldora Power, lxiv

founded in the 1970s as the private gas electricity power producer, by only $200 million investment, it was the price of that time, their capital was bought from the gas generator by $0.8 million, the recent total assets approximately $1.7 billion in good term, we will begin with Ms.Frobisher, who is here for us as the chief analyst of W’d Morale Venture Capitals, and has been organizing the main IPOs, as she is also the leading underwriter of the investment banking sector, what is your rationale behind this madcap, $1.040 trillion?’

‘The market cap has been consisted of the stock price $80, and 13 billion as our outstanding shares for the first round, since utilities are the stable investment, we have been expecting the participation of small investors without fear, by our forward growth rate that is possible to get over the perfect ratio, more than 100%, this is enough optimistic for our dividend rate that can be more than 12%. I suppose, the market sentiment is not the business of our clients, the certain signal has already been assured by Mr.Trinder, 10% of total assets of Fldora will be belonged to him.’

‘As the billion digits are not the cringe of W’d Ventures, especially, as for Mr.Trinder, but Ms.Frobisher, you are usually not much audacious, to be scrupulous for your choice?’

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‘I will say, our integration with Fldora has been since our Private Equity that has made the finest contribution to the R&D sector for the new plants, as well as with the individual investors of Fldora, nearly 350 members, their annual total funds to the firm have been $710 million, who equally share the clientele with W’d Morale.’

Quent once settled the discussion with her,‘VOLU average trading per day has been at least 15% dominant by W’d related exchange, and Venture Capitals’ annual operating income, for only one sector, has been estimated as $1.37 trillion. Dieter Sanchez is with us, good evening.’

‘Good evening.’

‘The business began in the 1950s during the economic boom, getting onto the flamboyant market, to encourage the financial activities, and this trend has been inherited among the corporation since then.’

‘Exactly.’

‘However, the optimum springboard was actually in the last decade when it was called, a wave of hostile takeovers, does the fact annoy you?’

‘Yes and no. Fortunately, our clients have been the realityopportunists, and we have recognized well that it was not for

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the failure in place, but the error had been within the conglomerate mergers prior to then, the benefits from the differences, the business who had made flaw in this aspect had lost the value, and it was not amiss for their rebased equities to be acquired by us, for our mutual growth, thus we were the contestant for the hostile trend at that time, as well as not.

We have already announced, our investment for this IPO, surely, it is not the acquisition, we have been organizing the process to sell their shares in public, with our capital of our clients, even though the board members are going to be restructured as we can see in our prospectus that Mr.Branden will interpret the detail to us.’

‘Rudo Trinder as the new CEO, Mr.Branden, can you talk to us about this?’

‘All the decisions were made in our final meeting as the private business, of course, Mr.Trinder was in present, with our tender concession, indeed, Rudo’s resolution that he would get out of his post as the executive of W’d Morale to be the CEO of Fldora, was deemed as his stiff option, comparing with I and the previous owner, my father, Nelson who has been in hospital, we are proud to select the right way for our firm, I am going to be the senior board director of Fldora, with our partners from the original proprietors’ days.’ lxvii

‘How the compensation scheme can be offered to the board?’

‘Their shares are upgraded to be of the dual structure with the special voting rights, and the option is attached. The apportionment is 1 or 10 that is pertained to each of their holdings, as they have been our substantial agents with the venture capitalists of W’d for going public.’

‘The recent annual net income of Fldora Power, $3.5 billion, this has been less than 30% of the average of your competitors, thus the expected earnings per share, 297.14, I would like your comment, Mr.Branden.’

‘In our technical view of the operating cost as the gas power generator, it’s been far less than the coal, and their operating capacities have been more than 13% of ours, albeit the recent bear condition of gas inventories was the simple trigger to initiate our new project, I suppose that this type of macroeconomic influence has ever been the preferred chance of the industry, such as, during the 1970s, the price of oil doubled, but the gas and coal electricity were the reasonable evacuation. Fldora, which had been originally, the small vendor of the kitchen apparatus, was allowed to exist as the vertically integrated utilities, then by altering what we had provided, within the social reality, from the sanguine threshold that the advent lxviii

of electric commerce was continuing to ramp up the power consumption.’

‘The formidable endeavor can be the new plants, and these have already led the huge scandal, Ms.Frobisher, I should know more about your work done, for our last five minutes.’

‘Those have been still under renovation to complete the electro-chemistry that is able to satisfy the high energy by the low cost. In my first visit to the facility, it was observable that the cooling function that had been for the superconductivity with the local retailers, was fully capacitated during the recent construction. The superconductivity had been noted in the 1980s, the electrical technology with the material below absolute zero, in order to eradicate the magnetic field, and to reduce the resistance of the energy flow. For our new project, the refrigerators have been retrofitted to install a cryogenic mechanism, a moment of freezing, minus 150 centigrade is adjustable to the chemical resource. Houps Power and Neocum Energy are the predecessors that will compose our innovation, the potential synergy with them can be the compelling assumption until our further negotiations, whether we would acquire them, or we would make royalty purchases.’

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The next weekend was placid, on Sunday, apart from the relentless hustle for the upcoming IPO, the morning paper issued the special edition about the invention of Neocum, since their patent and trademark application had been miserably rejected by the officials, it was the parallel controversy with Fldora’s big public expedition, Branden perused the sheet in his living room.

“The electricity transmission with the nodal access was about to be transformed to the system without wires by the avant-innovation of Neocum, it was the sought after solution of the industry, as the physically existing lines imposes the power limits, because of the excessive heat, consequently, it triggers the deformation. However, Patent & Trademark Officials rejected the admission last month, regarding the insufficient safety test but the conditional instruction. The lobbying happened against the denial, by the peripheral employees of the R&D facility, the canteen and cleaning members, couriers of the laboratory equipment, for the reason that unless the fact of the examination was fully explained, there would be no fulfillment of the safety policy.

On Friday, the director of the officials clarified the rebuttal as the injunction by the national defense, the sponsors will pay the compensation to the lobbyers.”

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He glanced the market report that Neocum had been losing the price since a month before, nevertheless, when they had ever announced the technical effort, the price had climbed up nearly $200 per share, whereas Houps achieved the steady growth, especially for their successful patent process that the tiny amount of frozen fuel by means of the chemical reaction with the phosphorescent light, generated the intense energy, while the fuel was solidified, the light was beamed over the ice to be absorbed, for the crystalized structure made reaction on the rays, ultimately, the dissolving essence was the mutated outer layer, the viscous membrane, the amorphous shelter covered the energy, thus it could completely prevent from the arc, which sometimes occurred because of the excessive voltage insulation of the electric field, specifically by the air.

Abdulov who was the private partner had once evaluated Houps’operation,“The problem is the inconsistent relationship between the fickle fuel price and the low beta of utilities, it can’t be perfect. There has ever been the period that hydrogen, water, as the viable resource, but the unbeatable hurdle of hydroelectricity has been the weather-dependent feeble generation.” As Nelson’s peer, his support had been since the foundation, he had been the parts supplier of Fldora Kitchen, the well-educated gentleman was said to have joined the profession of the science lab in his youth, and to have retired to own lxxi

the inherited factory. He was also the client of W’d Morale Private Equity with the Upton family, who was the investor of Fldora, as well as their endowment to the Energy & Research Center abroad. In the opportunity of the conference, Mr.Upton had suggested to take up Abdulov’s idea for the R&D sector, and it had led Branden’s first meeting with W’d Ventures, including Rudo, the eminent tycoon whose meticulously intricate tactics were always destined to his resolutions, in his short tall, active and talkative, his weekly holiday for exercise in a gym, his hair recessed, the narrow eyes sometimes characterized him in charming affinity, rather than the reverential nobility, but everyone could perceive his enormous sublimity, it might have been established through his career, then, what was it? It was excessively the rigid balance between his will and determinism, as his fate or a fortune for his goal and motive.“That is the evocative words, I am rejoiced.” Rudo’s first remark, when he had noticed the commemorative creed in the meeting room, which Nelson had ever been persuaded to sell fridges, dish washers, and so on, by exceptional discount, as it had proclaimed,“Charitable Mind.” However, his son had been detached from it, the hackneyed naivety, moreover, he had been ashamed because of the amalgamation of dust on the frame that had been too lofty to be polished, presumably due to the mists from the air conditioner, it should lxxii

have been waxed, spotlessly for such a guy, Rudo whose lingering adagio,“For my real option, I decide to make expense for other shareholders’ benefits. Notions and conventions often tease us, and I feel that this is the uttermost attraction of our trading.”

On his clear recollection before noon on holiday, Branden pressed the contact to Johanna, ‘Anyway, our time is for the IPO, and I believe that the market performance has been made for our promise, for our successful launch in the next month, there has been the virtuous precision, what so ever.’

‘Yes, it’s been the generous trend.’ Branden raised himself from the couch to go out where the mailbox was studded with letters, from the investment banks, IPO guides, and he sorted out only a hand written envelope until the garage was opened for his sedan.

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The venue for medicine was spacious, Nelson might have rather indulged in his luxurious solitude that he favored, his wife had separated from them when the son had been six years old, who had left her undertone on the day of this serene weekend alike,“You are the man, who lives without me.”

The extensive agglomeration of off-white buildings, but Branden was straight to the main entrance where the information desk was easy to find as all the visitors were required to be advised their direction to the wards. The plants and foliage marvelously flourished, the astute turquoise and roseate petals in the vases from some window sills, their revitalization would be the obvious efficacy. His father was in the cafeteria where he seemingly didn’t distinguish from the dining in the town, nevertheless,‘It’s closed at 8pm.’ His son thought that this guy’s persistent yarn for grog wouldn’t be eradicated forever, though the impairment of his liver could be. ‘Aren’t you the person who eats this?’ The old man pointed his cheesecake on a plate. ‘Ah, I have been terribly exhausted since the broadcast last night.’

‘That was great! To let him in, or let him out, everyone speaks with their obfuscated pride on Rudo, despite their mind as a cat for the cream… Johanna is the sympathetic woman, because she didn’t say about our failure of the super conductivity that had eaten up our scanty capital at the time. lxxiv

When our debacle had been publicized, many providers had retreated from it. Do you remember that you have ever witnessed the arc?’

‘No.’ ‘The brain teaser in your childhood.“Which one? Is that the arc or thunder?”’

‘What did I answer?’

‘You were genius,“It is the arc, daddy, because thunder doesn’t crack the sky, but the arc does it.”’

‘The crack… as if someone had attempted scribbles in the sky, but too much power eventually broke the sky... oh, that was the time when we were for cooking.’

‘Yes. On the next day, the complaints were squeezed to our phone, because all the things were frayed.’

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The private patient room was arranged in comprehensive furnishings, such as the sizable bath, and bundles of tip sheets for his stocks were piled up. Considering the amount that he had earned so far, it couldn’t have been only the time-killing for the suspicion of minor hepatitis,‘The market is the sensitive and nervous personality that reflects the temperament of society, the fluctuation equals the instability of traders, it is the entropy under the physical law, the heat causes decay. In fact, when we were establishing Fldora Kitchen, we pondered if we would be the vendor of air conditioners that began to influence the people’s migrations, completely independent from the seasonal factors, no matter, in the winter or summer, all the continents on the Earth were developing the comfortable degree days throughout a year.’

‘How do you predict in delicacy, the recent deep troughs of Neocum, those may be to the abyss?’

‘They can be on the support level to retrieve, because you have just told me those as the troughs.’

‘Will you sell them?’

‘No. I will buy them.’ Nelson narrowed his confined eyes, before folding his glasses, he was going to turn on the TV,‘No, not now.’ His son suspended,‘The letter came to me in this morning, you may know the magazine, Financial QUO, the sender’s lxxvi

name is Fionna Richards on it, but it is obviously not from the press, but perhaps, by the bureaucratic control, it says,“Regarding the IPO of Fldora, what we shall like to be discerned are as follows.”’

‘Continue.’

“It is difficult for us to categorize the two inventions separately, has there any relationship or the trace of collaboration, between Houps Power and Neocum Energy?”

‘How will you respond?’

‘It’s been only a coincidence within the industry. There is no wickedness in this final decade of the 20th century that the engineers are tempted to be the dawn of technology, except the fact that some of the clients of W’d Morale have their shares, but their equities are omnipresent, it is not to be worried.’

‘It can be enough.’

‘The second question is,“The previous owner of Fldora, Mr.Bongway, has he ever worked for the governmental administration?”’ Nelson chuckled,‘That was my eldest brother, Hector, he was in the admin office under the president Pittard in 1949, merely for less than a year. Pittard had ever advocated the deregulation of utilities, hence, when we were establishing Fldora Power, my brother did disagree with it, at least, we

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must have been for the regulated business, in order to avoid the nasty allegation of nepotism as the family of the resigned civil servant, and just before our start-up, he was dead in hospital, thus, you may answer, this question provokes a bad jinx.’

‘Oh, that’s the way it is.’

‘I suppose that the letter is rather, owning to the Insider Act, if it had been written by the official division, they would have already made open investigation about the two corporations. How do you render up the consequent arbitrage of the IPO? There is no reason that the law should be such benevolent.’

‘The form has been fastidiously done by Johanna.’

‘I know, her syndicate includes her brother Rodell, who also specializes the financial law.’

‘What do you mean?’

‘Rudo has more than 5% of Financial Quo, and he likes clean hands, which let things go smoothly, since ontology of regulation is for his success.’

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On Monday, Branden was clad in his wooly slacks, the chilly autumn, the forlorn easement to prop the high voltage towers were uncovered in the front view of his car, but the lower single poles dwindled away under the afternoon shadow, the artificial arms, and the skeletal projections with the knobbed insulators attached on where the wires extended from, welcomed him, who was driving through the arid gateway towards the power plant, it took for thirty minutes from his home until he parked his car, the redolent of gas and din of turbines that were mixed with the tingle of turpentine, the pallid durable walls inside to engulf motion for energy, realistically, several structures were going to be salvaged.

Johanna, and her assistant underwriter,Yolanda Veselovsky, who devotedly satisfied her responsible position by her piquant fresh vigor as the chief accountant of W’d Morale, had ever visited there, albeit he had ardently delineated that the facility had once been set up as the capital lease by his father, and when the term had been expired, they had made bargain purchase, moreover the cost had already been spread over years to be zero with the advantage of the depreciation tax-shield, the accountant had made only a hinted concession, as she had prescribed the contemporary standard, the forward-looking style. However, in fact, there had yet been nothing to be evident for the IPO, except the gigantic goodwill lxxix

because of the succeeding technology, the enormous intangible assets for the future, regardless, her sharp tone had further professed in her short hair casually matched with her tight suit,“I suggest, our competition entails unexpected events under the law of realization with the pro-forma that can be the kernel of business, the positive astonishment is the joy of our consumers as well as our rivals. The evaluation has the formulaic habit as our configuration, my boss, Mr.Mayer has ever told me that if we had been allowed to do everything by ourselves…indeed, I am licensed as an auditor, but I am banned from our clients’ assets for it. Furthermore, my partner, Rodell takes sensitive tacks on the restriction by Trade & Exchange Officials, since some of them are within our country, especially, the prohibition on the corporate bond issues under the trusting companies whose benefits are shared with the registerers, this law was published after Ms.Perez was appointed to the chief representative of the National Reserve, it may have been for her rigid assertion that liabilities would bear the profits and maintenance, but these would also trigger corruption by flatteringly unrelated causality.”

“The interest rates might be for some firms almost addictive, perhaps, they can grow in time.”

“Our property is also grown, and it experiences adolescence, the evaluation is the vertical configuration of figures, lxxx

the estimation is the horizontal configuration along with time.”

“If Rudo had been here, he would have approved our capacity utilization to be renewed without any thriftiness.” Johanna had surmised the discussion.

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In his office, “Charitable Mind” behind, Branden turned on the computer that contained all the requisite data. When Nelson had firstly witnessed this equipment, he had been piqued his curiosity how the machine would have been accessible to his brokers with the tele-network to encourage his trading, it could have been the original purpose for it that had brought him back to the mid-1960s, the musician like youths had got together in the pub, who had never ordered alcohol, instead, orange juice had kept them until late, what had been their cumbersome trunks? The girls had tossed their smiles and words to them but mutual interest particular of the genders.

The phone on his desk rang, it was from his secretary to tell him that his employee was going to see him shortly, and the man in his working uniform stood there, he was in the company of yore,‘I am here for my retirement.’ His tussocky eye blows were on his elongated face, gray was fledging in his hair.

‘Mr.Sigfred?’

‘I am getting onto my 60’s and these days, my knees have been hissing aches.’

‘However, we need you, our veteran, you may know that we have been expanding our place, will you leave us before the completion? It is regretful.’

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‘If so, what I should tell you is only our gratitude for your work, so far.’ Branden searched for the information about the employee on the desktop,‘You have had the defined pension scheme with us, as well as the contribution pot. For our retirement policy, the reckoned percentage from your final salary is added to the regular installment… or rather if you can talk with Nelson…’

‘I would like to visit the master today, my son has been for me.’ The appointment was made with him by the secretary, ‘He will be pleased to meet you.’

‘I appreciate. My son, Zholdin is the system operator of Neocum, which has been his avid interest since his childhood. As the properly controlled distribution each minute by minute, whereby the accurate power flow, these are essential to run the control room, he voted for the grievance last month, he persisted in fulfilling the satisfactory state, hertz and voltage within the regulated range, absolutely, the eradication of contingencies for seconds, and why not for the R&D sector?

Whether his firm is our competitor or not, I can’t quash my conviction that we are the same for the energy.’

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is the solution that we are going to achieve, our success has already been vowed. Please tell your son what I have praised, and for the best of your health, comfortable retirement.’

‘Thank you for blessing me, I will be in our rural home, with my wife, and our residence in the apartment will be given to Zholdin, who is going to live alone.’

‘Sounds good.’ Branden waved him from his office, his son was in his 20’s, but his lanky constitution was as if a teenager, one of his legs was slightly contorted, presumably, because of the bone deficiency, albeit his father had the white skin, the son’s tanned hue was visible there. Zholdin received his father’s bag and put it into the boot.

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The robust kick-off was by the widespread prospectus as the preliminary spurt of their IPO, the supply contracts of Fldora rapidly shot up, more than 50% beyond the operating capacity, thereafter, the situation urged Houps to be their partner that raised the total net income till 30%. Hugo Mayer, the general chief financial officer of W’d Morale prompted Johanna’s team to prepare for the formal acquisition proposal, yet the involvement of Neocum was possibly deferred, the uncertainty of the firm was still inexorable.

At the time, Quent was juggling with the snippets to buttress his forecasts,‘In this case, it can be the tender deal.’

Houps Power, the independent coal power producer had been founded in 1985, above all, they had ever spent $1.4 billion for their R&D sector, the accrued per share, $113 up and up, approximately 17% higher from the book value, but undeservedly, the admitted invention hadn’t yet been actualized, the haunted spell as the dark spread, was stubbornly controversial in this era. The peak of environmental concern and the climate change during the 1970s, it had transformed the neurotic reaction to be the global argument that had been reverberating since then, or rather as the revived culture towards the second millennium.

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At 5.00 am, in his office where VOLU was for ten minutes by walk, Quent was observing the trade building that had already unleashed the daytime resplendency in the center of the twilight urban city, the dazzling two edifices were in tandem each other, as the state of the art venue, proudly the largest market in the world, the two constructions were shoulder by shoulder, one of them whose antique grandiose built in the earlier of the 20th century was the five star hotel on several floors, and it had the restaurants, conference rooms and gymnasium, these market-client-only amenities were for the people in the financial domain.

On the day of the IPO, nearly 200 representatives from Fldora and W’d Morale stayed their sleepless night, while the fifty screens of the trade floor in another property were calibrating the sunrise, it had enough space for the journalists, in addition to the regular dealers who were approximately 800, they had chiefly organized the volume with the price-weighed portfolio index, IDUOM, the average had ever recorded 2000 to 3000, then, thanks to the birth of the computer, the disappearance of the pit congestion for the open outcry, because all the bids and asks had been input to the machines on the desks with handy telephones, as soon as they had trawled the honorable trade on the screens, the two dealers had cricked each acceptance in their numbered boxes, and it had been considered lxxxvi

as “match”, their orders had been sent to the exchange members via VOLU personal tele-network through the linked modems and sockets, consequently, the one minute process had ever kept 90% affluence without the loss.

‘There has been no rest for the stormy festival, that’s already been the feast.’ The floor dealer, Hans, indicated the stacked announcements since the last close, while his machine was awoken, Celine was in the neighboring booth, who confirmed that the P/E ratio of Fldora at this time had made proportionately the positive score to the recent net income.

The first fill-light was casted upon Johanna, as soon as she passed the entrance, the barrage of microphones,‘I hope our capricious turnover, not to be taken as my excuse as it is, because we are the cordial industry to have been registered.’ her dry quip about the uninfluenced price per share, and she, who became the chief financial director of the IPO firm, paddled her way to the company floor above, subsequently, the crew of Finance of Your World was ready, after they separated to the sides of the carpet for the personage, with their senseless slog that the red veils covered their cameras to convey the faint dominance, but the same cloaks had already been swinging everywhere.

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After for a while, Quent was flying down to the floor, and nearly for thirty minutes elapsed, the door was swiftly opened to the charisma, Rudo, who stepped in, halted before the scattering voices, he commenced the day,‘Good morning, 200 brokers who can help our IPO have been sent for today, they are wearing the red jackets, the color of the IPOs in VOLU. I will be on the higher floor until the closing hour, and give me your contact to where I am, I will make personal response what you would like to be informed.’

‘Rudo!’ cheers and howls, these were gushed out concomitantly, as well as the impossibility to intervene the files of the red squad, conquering the place next to next within the limited time, thus the camera was faced to Quent whose back ground was the passionate cavalries,‘The friends of the sun embody the effulgence of VOLU, as I have ever attended from my office for 24 hours. The technical capacity has been upgraded, which means your orders are processed by the dealers who are apparently more than one thousand, they are trustfully accurate for you.

Our camera took the CEO of Fldora, Mr.Trinder, in his winered satiny shirt, just before. During this morning, he also invited his 200 assistant brokers to the grand banquet hall of the detached building that is the part of his property, and they enjoyed the breakfast buffet.’ lxxxviii

On the executive floor, Rudo was watching the broadcast with the other board members, and the location on the screen was returned to the TV studio,‘Quent, thank you for your report.

Secretary of Trade & Exchange has completely avoided the comment on this IPO, but Ms.Perez of the National Reserve, explained the governmental non commitment last week.’ The VTR showed Etienne Perez who was in the acme of her matured leadership, having been renowned as the daughter of the former secretary of defense, she had been brought up as much independent woman than the public image.“The subjective potential often makes enchantment on the national economy, the scheme of their project has been realistic, because of the nearly accomplished technology that I have ever witnessed by myself, albeit the process has yet been on the stage to be stepped down, their capital funds are physically existed, and their methodology prioritizes the consumer benefits as it has been publicized in many occasions. The business has rights to flourish as well as our people have rights to trade, in fact, this IPO is not the risk for the individual investors, moreover, it has been not the degree for the government to enjoin the lawful enterprise with the positive client reactions. Their market cap doesn’t directly indicate the reached income that would be possible in the future, yet rather I am convinced, as lxxxix

it is the opportunity to tell us more about our country, by utilities, their recurrent history of the regulation and deregulation, these adjustments have ever been no mistake as the accepted result that has been shown to us.�

Sanchez supervised the trading floor alongside the transparent panel, the regular traders were setting the portable phones to the extended infrastructures with the assistants.

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The resonant melody invigorated the people at 9.00 am, the opening bell was zinging through the floor, immediately, all the phones on the desks flickered that their chirrups were audible to the dealers with the half earbuds. At first, Branden couldn’t grasp what was happening to the billboard, the highlighted ticker symbol FLDO,‘Our price has been as if the endless count for a second on the digital clock.’ The CEO was enough gallant to hum.

When the regular members got the incessant arbitrage for FLDO, they mantled themselves with the red jacket until the ground was in full-crimson, but the system line clamped for ten minutes, hereafter, one of the traders blazed into the pit to meet with whom he had asked on, ‘$126…?’ ‘$12…’ ‘$137…’ ’13…?’ ‘$212…’ ‘$212, and …’ They were flapping their palms, the nostalgic rush hour, the gentle slope upward, no winding at all, these were felt pretty beautiful.

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Chapter II: Fldora Energy (Ticker symbol “FLDO”)

For one year and a few months, it had been the seething span for the legendary prominence of Fldora, in the wake of their public conquest,“Abnormally in bull phase.” “Optimistic Panic” How many appellations had Quent coined, so far, in order to express the market trend, having been initiated by the small private power producer? The formulaic motion had recurred in the second round, when the price had achieved approximately $5,000 per share, roughly equal to the average price of W’d Morale Investment Banking, it had lodged in the increment, 2 % every week, the dramatic surge of their total assets had already acquired the local independent utilities during the period, as if the firm had been the magnet that had been gravitating the competitors.

The stunning attraction was the further elucidation on the new plants,“The high energy exists as only a droplet of water, the crystal lattice, which the spin of an electron is in incredi-

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ble speed by the phosphorescent light, the electric energy from the hydrogen charge.”

Quent without his trivial joke,‘The water as the power source, is there any other progress as it has been the rumor since the pre-IPO last year, Mr.Bongway?’ He was, then, the senior board director of the company that was operating nearly 60% of the total electricity of the nation, as a result of the serial acquisitions.‘The perspective of the free-electricity at this time, should be taken as a kind of metaphorical impetus, and we would rather like to appeal that our energy is 100% environmentally-friendly, and hydrogen is said to be the infinite resource. Our new plants have a filtering mechanism to take water directly from the local rivers that are accessed to the ocean.

First of all, H2O is separated by the positively charged anode electrode and the cathode in the opposite charge, which means that H+ is to the cathode, OH- is to the anode, this system produces the load of electrons, the flowing energy, but not to be anxious, we don’t unnecessarily exploit oxygen as the bitter criticism from Malthusian view1.’

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Business & Market Act 1930 has been the precarious nerve of the Secretary.’

‘I always appreciate for their fair support, the capable comprehension of our state, particularly, their determined gist between competitions and the emergence of monopolies, under the standard tenet that the competitions boost our business, but fortunately, the ministry in our days has been held by the cutting-edge parents of the Generation-X, not for the antimonopoly, but for the anti-norm to advance, regarding what the problem has been hitherto, we actually advocate the market participants’ profits.’

‘We have been broadening the range of our shareholders with the growth of our service, the portal of our industry can be much cultivated. As you find, whenever our acquisitions, we have yielded the phenomenal fertility, and our device has been the reliable benefits to the target shareholders.’ Johanna.

‘Houps Power has been yet… your… as it’s been expressed as the operating partner, but the invention has already been by the R&D collaboration.’

‘The process for a patent and trademark requires perfect safety, and we have been concentrating on, how we are able to get over the difficulty that has ever afflicted Neocum, they have been also our collaborator.’ xciv

‘What is your trajectory of the abnormal bull in this month, Mr.Bongway?’

‘More than triple, or the burgeoning exponents.’

‘Thank you for our two guests, and Happy New Year.’

Branden turned off the program that had been taken a week before, he peeped through the venetian blind, the snow had been making hillocks since the night. He wore the tinted glasses on his eyes and went outside, the guy who looked as a journalist approached him,‘Good morning, Mr.Bongway, you can’t handle your sedan, but the bus has been on the main road, would you like to get on it, or I have my car parked there?’

‘No thank you, I will have the bus.’ He made reticent smile that was photographed,then,‘Can I snap you, once more, when you are stepping onto a ride?’

‘Oh, that would be my grace, yes you can.’ The man as a rat followed him, and the neighbors viewed them from their bedrooms under the frozen roofs.‘Have a nice day!’ When the vehicle stopped, the director was taken one shot as he cheered the rat.

He selected the chaise longue on the carriage, and ensconced himself, the playful child,‘“To be the rich, you have

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bought Fldora!”Is this true?’ The boy put his finger on the newspaper, ‘Absolutely, and you will be a billionaire, but you may still want to study and want to work.’ He returned to his family for his scoop. Branden thought about evolution, and it was continued in this century, the teenagers obtained identically aesthetic handsomeness, and it could be in virtue of their intelligent mental serenity.

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‘A few guys visited my ward, and they were the ones, who had been dispatched from Sanchez.’ As soon as Nelson met his son, he informed.‘What were they for?’

‘W’d Morale Investment Banking has started the reasonable mortgage in the risk-free rate, it is as the benevolent national welfare, the fixed 8.6%.’

‘That’s so kind, the inflation rate plus 5.6%.’

‘The purchase is not in our area.’

‘Is that villa, or something like that?’

‘No. For our house in the resort town.’

‘We have already had it, it’s been too spacious for me to live alone, you will be an outpatient anytime.’

‘Shall we buy it?’

‘If you prefer, it can be done within your personal savings, can’t you?’ ‘“It can be done within your personal savings?” Exactly, the same advice was given by the compact guy, recently came to me as well, who was Quent’s colleague.’

‘Oh, really.’

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The new year was the cacophonous zeal, after the robust anniversary was celebrated, the board meeting of Fldora Energy was taken place in the enlarged conference room with the refined frame of “Charitable Mind”, but the atmosphere was still in the reminiscence of old business. Rudo as the new CEO spruced himself in his cozy wool jacket and light salmon velvety tie, he was slightly snow-burnt for his ski vacation abroad during the winter holiday, having gone across by his private jet, before he sat on the top front, he was chatting with the Uptons.‘Our shares have never been entailed in IDUOM, we have been considered as the separate entity from the market proxy.’

‘The situation has been without disturbance, we have been somewhat out of the major enterprises, nevertheless, we can’t be unbridled, if we get Houps and Neocum.’

‘The thing’s been going, happy new year.’

‘Happy new year, Rudo.’

The inauguration was the proposal from the CEO,‘Private Equity of W’d Morale shares the many clients with us, and they have hugely contributed since our public IPO. However, despite such triumph, their financial reports have been, the operating annual income $10.3 billion, the growth rate 12%, the market value of equities has been $16.320 billion, these rexcviii

sults have been restrained within the least of the firm. In our estimated prosperity, it can’t be out of our way that we will contain the sector.’ Johanna as his assistant, proceeded the agenda,‘On account of our positive referendum, the CEO will post our offer, and I am going to be with them to negotiate in detail, in my experience that has ever worked under Sanchez, he can be enough optimistic for the outcome, regarding the portfolio, the corporation has been planning to issue in these two years, and they will embrace the valuable entrepreneurs who can make global launch with us. According to our previous acquisitions, I will simulate this proposal, the offer is plus 2% to the price to be tender, in other words, our buy offer to roll up the existing ordinary shares owned more than each 100 stocks, on the other hand, we request discount to the board under several conditions, and we would like Mr.Tremont to be continuously the chief director of Private Equity. For the ethical trade, unfavorable abnormality should be thwarted, thus our payments are made by the share swaps, if there is no specified demand from the target, the exchange rate is rendered up to be fundamentally equilibrium between the old and the new, it is based on the two total market value of equities, then the hypothesized performance can be, the increase of the stock prices between 100% to more than 200 % for three days before the announcement, subsequently, the xcix

trend is sustained to 50 % rise, but the new shares keep to add 40% during the following six months, finally, it rests in the familiar upthrust, 2% in every week as usual, and this has been also expected in this time. If there is no query, our CEO will call the vote.’

‘Before then, one distinctive aspect of this project is, we would like our leverage for it, and albeit we are the AAA superior, we can be flexible for the prime rate that will be the initial benchmark, 20%, as it’s been recognized that W’d Morale Investment Banking has been supported by the stalwart corporate investors, such as Houps and Neocum.’ While the air of the gallery was jiggled a bit, Yolanda attempted to persuade the baffled voters,‘The sovereign rates are supposed to rise henceforth, and as the paradigmatic resolution of the inflated status, the discouragement of our economy would be, for instance, the dilution of the bond prices are sometimes felt as an eerie consequence as they have raised the number of outstanding bonds to be the normal progress, in other words, by the collection of our money, thus the Reserve may increase tax, too, which indicates 35% of the corporate income tax to be further levied on, for the purpose to heal the sense of value itself. The state is actually merciful for us, as the principal is paid back in maturity, when our economy becomes steady, but realistically, the stringent restriction on the money supply control has c

been manifestly tethered.’ Branden who had been speechless by then,‘For the interest rate tax shield, is this too simple to have debts?’

‘Because the macro-economy itself has been operated within the standard algorithm, hence we shall follow, unless we device our new solution. And we must keep our mind that the unexpected inflation should be promptly recovered, if it is not determined as chronic, critically, it depends on how they would discover the persistency, or they can ignore it, by treating it as merely the odd deviation of the economy.’

‘Our capital structure for this acquisition is 65% of our leverage.’ Johanna. And the CEO exhorted the members to a plebiscite,‘IOU is for me, not within the negative connotation, and I can’t be so outmoded for my age, in this case, our relationship with W’d, as the perennial epithet,“Their financial pipe, the commitment to FLDO is dedicated to WDMO, vice versa.”’ The poll revealed 4/5 concession, and Rudo was intensively heedful of the opposed 1/5 that was turned out to be due to the scads proportion of liabilities.

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The seasonal lull had been trickled down to the beginning of the spring, as the takeover process had been brimful, the synergy between FLDO and WDMOEQ was issued earlier than the original plan, and this had been mightily for the solicitous effort and incisive savvy of Holger Tremont, the chief director of the target sector, as well as to be the head of the emerged company, FLDOEQ. He was surrounded by the beats of flashes from the media on the day,‘All the negotiations and offers have been completed under the superb conformity, and I am sufficed for this memorable day.’ He was the one who was bestowed his wisdom and unspoiled credence before his sixties, he had ever taken a plum employment at W’d Morale, as the exclusive finance degree graduate from the top-university, he had seldom disputed to be yes or no, his affirmation had assured the confidence on each project by his theoretical analysis, running through the decision gates in a jiffy, Johanna had been his disciple, and she had learnt from him, undoubtedly, he had been the staunch guardian of Private Equity whose methodology with the investment hierarchy, it had been differentiated by examining the top-down context from the macro economy to the micro strand, how the clients had been able to bang the gongs against the perpetual risks, his sector had ever nurtured the private companies until they had landed onto public. cii

Under the moistened sky, nevertheless, the festivity was not banal to the crowd, they flocked in front of VOLU, with their colorful umbrellas, albeit the tensed security guards were allocated over the district, there was no trouble at all.

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At 5.00 pm on the day, when the closing bell unfettered the floor brokers, Hans spoke to his colleagues, Austin and Celine, ‘It is drizzling, the screen told us 3% of the reduced bad weather by midnight, are you free tonight?’

‘What do you have?’

‘The red broker who used the socket there, gave us the tickets of Mr.Trinder’s banquet.’

‘That’s gorgeous.’

‘Plus 310% per share for one day, no one would die under the nasty sky. These days, COCCY index has been fit as our market. My monthly subscription has ever informed me that statistically, the people who live in a cold climate and the shorter day, have the highest risk to commit suicide, this can’t be true.’

‘Do you have something to kill you?’

‘No. I am on cloud nine, it’s going to be 2%, 2%, 2%... That’s been going.’

‘Let’s go.’

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It was the enthralling hour at dusk, the people freely assembled the multiple affinity, such as, of their occupations, or the ones having exchanged their business profiles just a minute before, the bottles of champagne were the flurry blossoms to show the merriment of the successful acquisition, as their endearments to Rudo onstage. The refurbished antiques and sophisticated practically were all contained of a piece, there was no intrusive segregation in the lounge, but perceptibly that the corporate executives occupied the VIP room with the guests from the foreign markets, COCCY and ZOBGA, equally, at the hem, the modest saloon with the specialized bartender behind the counter, this was the owners’ glorious hospitality, Cigar & Wine Room, it had ever earned the sobriquet as “Cork Shelter” because all the accessories inside were made of cork that usually for the wine bottles, some people were there at intervals, and they tasted the harmonized aroma, after all, they swiped their cards before returning to the associates.

Nonetheless, Branden was impossible to wobble off his apprehension during the leisure, because of Rudo, who had dangled the alternative bureaucracy, whether it would be the time for the injunction to curtail the thriving business, or it could be pedantry, yet, if everything would be better to be cleared, but anyway, the CEO reconciled him to say,‘Nothing to be concerned, we should have rather another celebration for his arricv

val, have you ever acquainted with our employee, Marcelo, Mr.Lambert, in our R&D sector? He is plausibly vital for our project with his full potential that is able to convey the eventual accomplishment, thus we can finish our takeover bids for Houps and Neocum by this summer. As I suppose that the government golden shares are offered to us, we will also demand our adequate incentive for it.’ He confirmed his wristwatch, and glanced the foyer, he beckoned the waiter to invite whom he was in need.

‘He is Marcelo, and his wife, Regina, Mr.Lambert, he is your boss, Mr.Bongway.’

‘Mr.Bongway whom I honor.’ The couple was affable decorum, and as the female representatives led his partner to the distant box-seat, Rudo,‘Marcelo, please talk to our senior director, the successful result of the safety test by our R&D sector.’

‘Mr.Bongway, we have passed 10,000 times without the insulation by the air, which is considered no risk at all, and this means, we are able to be granted our patent and trademark, I can be assured as I am the former employee of Patent & Trademark Officials.’ The CEO encouraged his talk,‘This was one of the kinks that we had to iron out, but even the administrator from Secretary of Trade & Exchange visited our R&D sector,

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his daughter is Mrs.Lambert, and he offered the funds for this research.’

‘I am pleased to be informed, as the technology belongs to our firm is the same as the distributed ownership, we are the public limited company, the responsibility of the invention is to be shared, and our government is also involved in our trade, but such precept is presumably susceptible to be the evasion, the certain invention can reduce our frustration.’

‘I concur with you, Mr.Bongway. In view of science, the limited research restricts the consequence. Regarding my career in the officials, the patent examination proceeding is always the question of the suspicion itself, why the truth is assumed not the truth, why the truth of the necessity to our society, why the truth of the credibility, and why the establishment is felt not to be the truth. Realistically, it is not the problem to be solved by the specialized knowledge, but if there exists, only marginal fragility in terms of our general recognition, the patent judge would interrogate, until the application is abolished.

The diminutive research also suppresses our comprehension, even though the statistical postulate often triggers muddle, if the safety ratio obtains the competence with the existing products, there is no reason of denial.’ Marcelo epitomized the enthusiastic diligence as a researcher, if there had ever been the one who had become his adversary, no bile, no hidden face, the cvii

law abiding scientist, though he rarely laughed, his organic sociability had been guaranteed since his arrival with his wife, his knowledge was appreciated, and he defined,‘I am the shareholder of Fldora, it has been the best opportunity for me to be involved in this milestone, particularly for the collaboration with Houps, and Neocum where I was in their research sector as the officer, or to be said as the inspector. The completed innovation has already been determined as the joint invention among the three corporations, and the certificate can be delivered to the firm within a few days, the rest of the thing will be the public announcement with the physically existing papers.

Our postponement of the application process was, in this time, not only because of the safety measures, but the two previous inventions by Houps and Neocum were completely in different characteristics, nevertheless, those had the directed nature within the fact that without the frozen fuel by Houps, the remote wireless electricity transmission by Neocum couldn’t have been, but the potential of the independent use was realistically not zero, thus it was unable to be categorized into the double patenting, and the aggravation was, whether it would be treated as the non-obvious double patenting, since the two inventions had been filed on the same day. Furthermore, it was turned out to be that the disapproval had been exactly by the request of the revocation, it had been made by Neocum cviii

themselves. On the other hand, as our comfort, the admitted invention of Houps has been amended, and they are going to republish it as the joint invention with us.’ Branden didn’t compose himself,‘By whom? Neocum has ever announced it as the rejection by… even the sacrifice of their status.’

‘Excuse me, can I interrupt you for it to be pending under my deliberation?’ Rudo took out the stoutly sheathed mobile phone hooked from his belt, and he input the number. Immediately, Quent who was nipping a la carte on the table in the main hall, picked his device, and he was heading towards there, with his mate.‘Good evening, he is from my office, Kurtis.’

‘I know him.’ Branden indicated the man as a rat, but Quent, ‘He worked for the tabloid, and has recently come to the broadsheet, although he organizes his own TV program, his genre is not only finance, it’s been the multiple current affairs, thus he would like Marcelo, it will be on the day after tomorrow.’

‘It’s a bit urgent.’ Branden kept his obstinacy, the CEO was resilient,‘While we were in VOLU today, the revocation by Neocum was publicized, they have been our joint inventor, but their past failure, especially the abstract incident hasn’t yet required our defense, and the media has procured our successful safety result as well. Therefore, it is not exactly our urgent, cix

you had to concentrate on the IPO, because the acquisition of Private Equity has been our treasure. We have already contacted to the post office, and the certificate is going to be ours by noon.’ It was the first time for Branden to be unsettled even by this noble, buzzing irritation inflicted on him, he questioned Kurtis,‘You would like to interview our employee, but the fact is, we have solved the safety issue, the certificate will be arrived tomorrow, and Neocum may take appropriate strategy, what would you like anymore?’ There was the minute silence among them, the wafting melody from the piano on the corner, Kurtis retreated to the instrument that it induced the familiar inclination.‘The vibration didn’t assist the deaf composer, he might have maintained the keys one by one within him, the code and tune, everything, he attained how it would speak. Do you think that the deaf composer was actually impaired his ears, if not, what was “deaf” for him? There are many people who yearn for realization, and even if it is resorted to be philistine amusement “Oh, I see” the potential of derivatives is infinite, in order to establish our civilization, I believe that this is my job. It is not the figurative connotation, imprudently, for your employee to be condemned or to be blamed for excess suspicion on him, and on your business.’

‘I’m sorry, but I am not good at your rhetoric.’

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‘Is there anything concerns you because of my interview? I hope that I can be on your side, Mr.Bongway whose father is the founder of Fldora.’ The man as a rat was as if the cat who had eaten up rodents, his hair ebbed from his temple, he was appeared much elder than his colleague, Branden scrutinized the one whose rugged cheekbones and his craggy knuckles, but he was favorably neat and brut,‘Neocum’s scandal has been a taboo, as it’s been retained as confidential under the national defense.’

‘Our manuscript has been thoroughly censored, and there has ever been the discussion with the government by Mrs.Lambert’s father, of course, the CEO is going to be with us.’

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The certificate of their patent and trademark was arrived to the headquarter on time, the ornamented tough sheet had the allocated identification number in seven digits, and supremacy was engraved on it, as the typographical FTM to prove that this had been born in Fldora.

Soon after the urgent board meeting with the old investors, Rudo appeared in public, and he seized the day, whereas the rest of them were watching these in the office. Branden drove his car to visit his father in accordance with the senior members’ request, but his dallying celebration for the successful invention was felt as if the intentional procrastination, and his abrupt awareness from the siesta that dawdled was hard to be followed, consequently, his son stayed for half an hour to listen to his threadbare story about Fldora.

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In the lobby of the TV studio, Branden earned plaudits from the congregation for the approved invention, and as he had expected on the way, Rudo had already been with the prestigious bouquets pouring over from his embrace, then they were escorted to where F made lucrative exhibition for the two guests.

A couple of interviewers began preamble by the outlandish quote that was reported in first-time,‘400 megawatt per hour fulfills 60% of the standard coal power generation that has been the commonest source of our energy, but the fact of F is … Mr.Bongway ?’

‘We will produce 400 megawatt per hour from only a ten cubic centimeters of ice that emits the amount of electricity, when it melts, and the cost of one cube is $0.001, the technology is enough capable for approximately 1.01 million giga-watt for a year, among the total usage of this country, 1.9 million giga-watt, which means we will require 3.03 million ice cubes, and our annual generation cost is going to be settled by $3003.’

‘How does this reasonable operation reflect to the consumer price?’

‘This is the question we would like to answer, the annual fixed contract can be from $0.25 to $0.5.’ cxiii

‘Wow! From a quarter to half a dollar! This difference is depended on the load profile, isn’t it, such as the supplies to the residence, commerce, or industry? The average bill that has been paid by one family with the three members, has been $350 for three months.’

‘However, we have reduced the cost by 1/ 1,400.’

‘Definitely, your customer would increase.’

‘We are almost infinitely expandable as long as the clouds and ocean exist.’

‘As Fldora is the deregulated industry, have you ever concerned the state intervention, Mr.Trinder?’

‘We will contribute much to our nation as well as to the global pioneering in the future, hence, our F is such an extraordinary. The state has been focusing on the most of our challenges, the system of the transmission, which our partner has ever failed the safety test within the probability of 1/1000, 1/ 5000, respectively. However, our sector has succeeded to the degree that if you are nervous for F, you would be the one who has confined yourself since your birth.’ The guffaws were burst out even from the camera crew, but when the interviewer showed their safety achievement to the main spot, 10,000 times, there was the awed tranquility followed by the applause, and the CEO,‘As soon as our exceptional result was cxiv

assured by Patent & Trademark Officials, the admission was sent, and this was why we had to seclude the transmission technology, stoically, because of the government order to avoid the tumultuous reaction of the public. The viscous liquid is the product of the interaction with the phosphorescent light, and it becomes the protective shell for the autonomous string of electricity, all the phenomena with the air and objects are negligible, there is no resistance at all, thus the necessity of the wires and cables are going to be disappeared. The logic of our safety is that we use water, thereby our cost is low and no risk, as you know, H2O is kept under moderate temperature, unless it is boiled.’

‘How does the cube dissolve?’

‘I shall emphasize more what I have said,“autonomous” by the phosphorescent light.’

‘Is the light itself safe?’

‘Yes. Our developers have made effort for the rays to be close to H2O components, and in fact, some organisms that live with us contain the similar luminosity, on that account, our researchers have sloughed off the protective wear, except the fabrics to secure them from the blades of equipment.’

‘The autonomous resource may completely change the system of the distribution?’ cxv

‘It may, as the system of equilibrium to maintain the perfect balance by itself, the demands are always equal to the supplies. Accordingly, we have obtained the double success, the reasonable high energy with the hydrogen cell, and the automated alternative current system (AD) it is operative with the simple program. The point of our idea is that the usage is made by the consumers, thus the voltage as well, albeit in terms of the functional practice for the power production, it would be contradictory, but we have found that by the primary autonomy, it is possible, the cubes evaporate by themselves, proportionately to the capacitive requirements that reflect as the voltage.’

‘The storage has been one of the standard methods to control the excess distribution in utilities, if my comprehension is correct, F will eliminate it.’

‘Actually, the electricity doesn’t perish, but why the water is decomposed, it is the inescapability from decay. The neighboring river is directly accessed to our facility and to the ocean.’

‘Can we know the run of, what you said “the simple program”?’ Branden displayed the handy board that the three numbers were horizontally aligned,-1,0,+1,‘Please take zero as the balanced status that is to say, the demands equal to the supplies, the increased supplies, or in other words, the decxvi

mands, are plus one, and the reductions are minus one, but the level two is nonexistent in our system. The point is the rapid transmission, it is almost the speed of light, then, our concern about the marginal cost is removed, which is triggered by the difference of the usage, for example, the consumer profile.’ The interviewer also submitted his diagram, ‘The energy distribution consists 180 degree phase in total, the motion of the angular topology is as if our pulse, this is the function of voltage to carry the positive power that always goes forward as the real power, and the reactive power that is negative. How does this notion make effect?’

‘Our system is the application of the three phase power by each 60 degree, by means of the tripartite currents, the oscillation between the real power at the degree of zero, and the reactive power in 60 degree, which pumps to complete our transmission within the stable voltage.’

‘As the train station, the nodes are where the power is adjusted towards the end-users, as the terminals, yet the moderation is the work by the operators.’

‘Not by the excessive plant expansion, but our connection is possible to be swelled by the meshed nodes that the other nodes exist on the links between the two stations. Regarding the operation of the transmission by the regulators, the flow of cxvii

electrons from the plants have been ridden on each determined hertz that is the frequency of each area, and for F, this will be also automated, thus their work is to monitor the status of the system.’

The presenter flipped the drawing to the opposite side,‘The regulation under the industrial law states the obligation on the facilities to set the equal number of circuit breakers to the transmission lines, and the feasible reparability from an error is also required, such as the black start capability, what about this aspect?’

‘Albeit you described those as “the transmission lines” as long as we have the nodes as the terminals, there are the tripartite conductors that are prerequisite, then in our case, three circuit breakers are installed. To be honest, the probability calculation is almost unnecessary for F, but the prudence is significant, not only because of the law, and odd contingencies that activate the circuit breakers are rendered less than 0.001%.’

‘What would happen to the energy that would cut off, it is usually put into the depository?’

‘This is analogous to the question what would happen to the apparatus when you turn off the switch. It is distributed to the alternative nodes, and the autonomous resource slightly recxviii

duces the rate to dissolve, hence it doesn’t hover around the air, additionally, in the case of full emergency, we shut out the water to flow in.’

The presenters faced to the viewers and brought the discussion to an end,‘Tonight, we have witnessed the monumental achievement of utilities. History of our civilization and development has been accelerated since the dawn of electricity, the dark has been no longer our trouble. Finally, when can we be your guest?’

‘Thank you for your contracts with us, we are expecting to be with F by the next summer. The regulatory proceeding has already accepted our proposal, furthermore, the Department of Budget & Economic Growth (DBEG) whose generosity has endowed us the tax exemption from the operating income, because of our sincere contribution to the clean technology.’

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At midnight on the day of F official announcement, Zholdin was climbing up the stairs of his apartment, he had finished his nightshift in Neocum control room, the work had been mainly the handling of the voltage scale, either up or down, along with the response from the local retailers, the condenser had been used for the capacitation of flow, and the inductance had been to make the direct advance of energy, the pushpins on the maps, the wallboard had been akin to the mosaic art, his enervation had been as if his worn-out overcoat that the frequent dry cleaning had tiered the fabric. Because of the peak load in the evening when the energy usually had drawn the apex of the convex curve on the monitor, but unstable enough. Despite the fact of this, as he had seen the young corpulent female who had been wiping the vending machine on the collider,“Are you ready?”

“It may be for a few minutes.”

The two had got on his car, and the radio had played the trad jazz, he had asked her if she had watched Rudo,“Yes, I did, in the canteen. They spoke what you may have already known.” The fluent saxophone from the audio-speaker had been switched to the press review, Zholdin had pecked at his intellect,“There is the U-shape curve to show how the pollution and people’s wealth are related. When our total income level increases, the environmental harm as well, but after for a cxx

while, the pollution decreases.2 Anyway, Fldora has put up my savings.”

“Aren’t you afraid of redundancy?”

“No, because they will buy our firm, I am sure of 95%, and you?”

“I will be out of my work by the next summer when my college begins abroad.”

“What are you going to learn?”

“Industrial economy.”

“You’ve got my lecture, and my original tutoring is, have you ever heard the shepherd and the wolf?”

“What?”

“Because the shares of Fldora have been perpetually in bull, bull, bull, there is the bull, thus there is the bear, but they have never had the bear, so that there has been no need to be scared by the bear, but we may quarrel with the shepherds, who make false about the horrendous wolf.”3 “It is prohibited by the law.”

“Yes, Rudo is not the fabulist, and I don’t say that only Rudo is the shepherd, in other words, I am also the shepherd as I

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have their stocks. And I meander whether the shepherds can be aware the wolf that is coming.”

“Do you have something in your mind?”

“No. However, they can’t perfectly predict the future.”

“Their business has the credible plan and scheme for it.”

“What is your scheme for tonight?”

“I am terribly starving, shall we get plates, there?”

“Mine is full, but if you order takeout, you can eat in my room.”

“I will have a torte by myself.”

“Do you have enough for it?” Zholdin had searched for the notes in his pocket.“Yes, but it will reduce my clubbing after the tuition fee.”

“Are you the shareholder?”

“I have both, Fldora and Neocum, so you do. Won’t you go for eats?”

“I need sleep for tomorrow, I will participate in the workshop in the afternoon, but if you are with me, I can be with you until the next morning.”

“I live with my parents, we get there, and I will go home by your car, then you set the alarm on your bed, otherwise, I will cxxii

left your car for a cab, or you can see another girl. Mr.Sigfred, you are notorious as a real flirt, and I guess that you recognized enough my future scheme without asking me.”

“Oh, I’ve got a little study. That’s all right, I can get you to your home, and that’s the end of us. I don’t like illumination, because of my leg.”

“My colleague spent the night with you, because of your lament that was the same as you are to me now, what does it mean by this?”

“I am not forlorn with this leg, because you-like pretty girl is with me, and you envy your mate, it explains that you love me.”

“Can I leave your car?”

“Are you going to have a whole torte in your naughty temper, but sorrel may save your gastronomic appetite?”

“Yes and yes, it’s a bit much.” She had slammed the door.

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Zholdin reached the floor where his room was, it was cold that kindled heating prior to a shower, and he took rest until the alarm clock beeped to start the day.

There was no absence of the system engineers, who enclosed the monitor, the representative from the R&D sector began his instruction,‘These waves are not different from the existing ones, being called sinusoidal waves, but comparing with the old system that reflects the spins of the production, this new display is corresponding to the voltage amperes made by the dissolving cubes, and either -1 or 0 or +1 is shown, which the digital figure indicates the status accessed to the distribution control.’ The highly autonomous mechanism was as a chemical being, Zholdin was intrigued in his thrill, because of the industrial progress that he belonged to.

He stayed on the couch in the reference room with the financial newspaper, in order to spare his time until his work.

‘They have been the ascending roller coaster, haven’t they?’

‘They have never ever fallen, but they can jump onto the sky to get on the endless upward.’ The two females spoke to him, the girl a night before, and another a week before,‘Hi!’ ‘Hi!’ ‘We are going to watch Kurtis together.’

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‘In your room? No, sorry, we have already finished our shifts.’

‘I will be by 8.00 pm, I’ve got a short cut today, for the program.’

‘How long? Absolutely not.’

‘That’s of my fate, thanks.’

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At 9.00 pm, the investigative current affairs program, everybody was watching it, whether Kurtis whose sarcastic eager as the nosy parker would divulge the unprepared questions, and the guests would get into a puzzle, beside Zholdin laid himself on the sofa, and his fingers gripped the TV remote controller, were gradually slackened for his snoozing. ‘When I worked for the officials, one day, I was told by the commissions to examine the ongoing project in the Energy & Research Center abroad, and I would reside there as the member of R&D, because of the uncanny reputation that the progressing invention of the wireless electricity transmission, would cause problem. In fact, I had to witness the sparks and arcs during the safety tests, whenever the organic silicon or lumps of soil contained metal were passed through. Our patent and trademark application was firstly rejected while I was in this center that was publicly owned, but tradable with the private business. During the process, I had been recommended from my colleagues in the lab to write my name on the application form as the inventor, of course, I had been hesitant, since it should have been by the leading inventor or the title of the research team, but all the members had rebuffed to do so, presumably due to the insufficient result. Anyway, the expiry had been within the short duration, as well as the director of the center had ever informed us, not to be concerned by the consecxxvi

quence, as the private firm abroad had already offered the purchase of our technology, in the case of failure.’

‘It had been Neocum.’

‘Yes, it had been.’

‘Mr.Rudo, you were the executive board member of W’d Morale, as well as you have been the eminent investor as the venture capitalist. Neocum received the funds from the institutional investors to buy-up the failed research, who have been also the powerful controllers of W’d and Fldora.’

‘You are correct, I have made discussion with them. However, what they knew at that time was sorely that their investment would earn the profits on the prosperous technology, and they were certainly informed the unfavorable test result in the center.’

‘Who was the first informer?’

‘This was Nelson, the original founder of Fldora, and it was when the investors visited his ward, Nelson told them that if Neocum couldn’t succeed the research, Fldora would roll it up.

He is the person whose deceased elder brother has ever worked under the government, thus his diplomatic acquaintances are numerous, and such visitors overseas often deliver the offers.’

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‘The tepid attitudes of our authorities, whether these have been for the sake of the Bongways. Since our law requires the state approval of every merger and acquisition, especially, they are cautious about the deals in mutual scale above $70 million.’

‘I suppose that business is the consequence of collaborated individual powers they have attained through their lives and careers, in addition to good luck. We have been benefitted from these, and it is the precise method, because it yields the advantage over the people. We need skillful personality whom everybody would like, this is the same as our government, this is, indeed, the agglomeration of the expertise elected by votes, by democracy, what is the problem of it? The champions of our country have approved our serial growth, this has been the consequence we have had.’

‘Mr.Lambert, you please.’

‘Due to the regulation that the inventions that have been once rejected abroad, can’t be re-applied within six months in other countries, the research was in deferral, whereas it was the fair opportunity as well, because Neocum where I also worked, could spend for the improvement of the conduct.

When the time obeyed the domestic application, I determined no problem, but as I was questioned the safety, I had to cxxviii

be silent for the degree that the patent judge required. I was the adjudicator at the time, because it was the original purpose of the officials, having ordered me to be the inspector cum the developer in place, to know the accurate status along with the progress, and the vulnerable reality led my decision to disapprove.

When the lobbying was happened, I seriously regretted for a lack of my precaution, because it meant that the employees had signed the unreliable safety policy, thus I submitted my resignation to the officials. As soon as the director noticed my request, he confessed the entangled records on the documents. Despite of my refusal of the application, my name was in fact, on the application paper abroad as the inventor, and I was not treated as the state personnel in the foreign country, then the decision paper on his hand had the stamp as REVOCATION by the original inventor.’

‘However, you actually made decision in this country.’

‘For my inquiry, I was conceded within the ambit of intellectual property, the onus to evaluate the original idea, in this case, there had been the inventor abroad, then who? Officially, the one had been I, nonetheless, I had disapproved the application in this country as the state officer.’

‘That is the labyrinth.’ cxxix

‘Furthermore, the same filing date of the two inventions may be only a coincidence, especially, because of the time gap for six months in compliance with the regulation. And it was the time when I began to work for the R&D sector of Fldora, the entitlement of our application was resolved from the restriction, the former employees of the officials can’t make the application, after the termination of the employment for one year.’

‘I can see the published patent file. The inventor’s signature has yours with the title, Fldora Energy R&D.’ ‘As he is the knowledgeable employee, and our safety is guaranteed, I would like him to be acclaimed for F.’ The CEO. ‘Are you enough rewarded?’

‘I am proud of F.’ ‘What is the compensation scheme that is given to you?’

‘I am the shareholder who has the voting rights, the discount offers are made with the warrants and bonuses.’

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Had his life ever been within the repetitive repentance that Zholdin was numbed, after his eyes were opened at 4.00 am, the TV had been kept turned on through the night, the flowing river on the screen as the interlude to the next program, the remote controller had been flopped on the carpet, he picked it up and switched it off, yes actually, it was the tedious recurrence, and he recalled that it had been approximately five years before, his father had been there with him, and he had woken up his son to return on his bed.“You will be late for tomorrow, and please let me sleep, I have been sapped by my work until now.”

“Oh, time is for you, father, look at that, the stream of water, and this device will emit a string of the signal-wave to finish it, what a fabulous contraption!”

“Are you still dreaming to say as a prank? Though, how unique it is!”

Several springs had gone by since then, when he had been to the south during his paid holiday, he had enrolled in the seminar for engineers in the Energy & Research Center, the tutorial on the brand new transmission technology, it had been the sonorous experience under the searing sun as long as it had been within the perks.

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He was struggling in the blanket, it was the lethargic morning, with his cricked neck, and his breakfast was a tube of maple syrup over slates of butter, which saturated a pile of flapjacks.

When Zholdin arrived to the office, the different atmosphere was noticeable from the parking area, he was annoyed by the boisterous mass against his dissipation, but he scraped into the entrance, and the camera stalls were capturing the F simulation machine that had learnt with him a day before, and as he was flashed, he was displaced to the canteen where there was the TV, ‘The active spirit has ever been sheltered from all the preys, the history of Neocum Energy began in 1983, the endless curtain calls to be under the roof of Fldora empire.’

‘Hi.’ ‘Hi.’ ‘Our firm is going to be acquired by Fldora in June, there’s been the formal announcement, and for Houps, it will be a merger.’

‘That’s gonna be the perky market, the three celebrities unite the IPO romance.’

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‘Not the romance, but the tempest, but I need to prepare for my September.’

‘Will you leave by then?’

‘It might be a waste of the company to train the employee who is going to quit within two months.

The newspapers have chanted,“Would Charitable Mind be of Neocum?” The firm has answered that it’s been difficult, but in my case, my option is for the best of myself, that’s all.’

‘We have recovered from the sagged $87 per share to $165 for these three days, and Houps has achieved nearly $450.’

‘You can also recover yourself, if you visit here in this evening, because she will be cooking dinner.’ The torte girl pointed to the counter where the one was agile to array the snacks on plates for breakfast.‘Oh, damn, your kidding comes true!’

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Chapter III: W’d Morale (Ticker symbol “WDMO”)

On the settlement of Fldora takeover negotiations with Houps and Neocum, Johanna returned to the parental corporation, W’d Morale, to assist their acquisition of Mellet whose market rank was in the middle of financials, despite the proliferation of their several branches, and the wide range of partners abroad, as the private bank and investment management, it was obvious that the motif of their goal had been by then, the capacity development, by means of the excessive expenditure to embark on the crusade, thus the total assets had been limited to $80.7 billion, the dispersed average growth rate 7% per year, yet the market cap had been increasing to $5.55 billion, accordingly, W’d Morale was destined to buy them under the aegis of, especially the venture capitalists.

The mixture of crisp art deco and dainty chic elegance was the characteristic of W’d Morale headquarter, and Sanchez’s private office was designed in grey and black, his libertine sagacity was emanated from him on the desk with the wood carv-

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ings,‘We are going to restore the nostrum that has been gnawing at our industry, such as hedge funds, and exactly, our bonds are not the debts, but the products, these can be henceforth, belonged to the families, this is why I would like Mellet.’

The chairman demonstrated the sample cover of the IPO prospectus,‘“We are the partners, we are the competitors” The same slogan can be inscribed in Fldora, they live in the castle made of courteous bricks for our daily lives as utilities, and this credence must be their strength, equally for the banks, the corresponding sense of trust exists among the people. I often engage with my fantasy if the discrepancy between stocks and bonds has been merely within the sensitivity of traders, the reimbursement of the principal as the earned costs that have been spent for equity purchases, whereas the bond interests are as if the growing dividends, don’t you like my thought?’ Johanna did respond favorably,‘Fldora owners have occupied nearly 70 % of the state population, and the employees of the firm have been raised to one million, the headhunting has been materialized to manage their financial department. Yolanda can replace my position, while I will be here, but the consequence of our synergy with Mellet may require her, thus she must come back to our banking sector, I will tell her to appoint the potential person as the chief financial director of Fldora.’ cxxxv

‘I have been assured that you have brought up the incredible genius for us.’

‘They are working by themselves.’

‘We expect you to structure our portfolio.’

‘However, everything depends on how we would settle with Mellet, we need their skills. The mutual funds that are applicable to our portfolio can be for the people who have made delay, and it will also promise to protect Fldora, the people’s financial resource. The portfolio is going to be assisted by Mr.Mayer.’ The quiet chief financial officer whose pacifist attitude on every occasion, he had never been suffered from vehemence, as well as superfluous exhilaration, in order to enlighten all the people, slowly, no exasperation at all, for his heavenly creed,“Whatever these are yearned for, all of them are what we should obtain as our destiny” in his suave perfume that had ever averred to all the employees,“That is true.”

‘The portfolio is going to be my final task with you, Johanna.

My sons are leaving us, and I suppose, it’s been the time for me with my wife.’

‘Do you have your children?’ She was obliged to be in full amity as if she was enough durable for the ones’ privacy, albeit this was her reluctance.‘Yes, I have.’

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‘Hugo, it is too early to declare it.’ Sanchez snapped the air, ‘The bureaucratic integration is presumed to be after the announcement of our portfolio issue, Etienne won’t move for utilities, but she takes action over financials. The top seat of the national economy is without her digression, if you are in place, because you are verily the self-standing person, you know that her biography is begun from her decree,“Daddy, is this your work? However, yours are to be mine.” To Sir.Perez, who laughed away, even he was delighted in his precocious daughter, she actually said to whom had ever erased all the traces of wars from the bottom of the barrel, if there had ever been such event.

Undoubtedly, I don’t have any idea to change the board structure of our banking sector, Mellet can join us as W’d Morale & Mell Private Banking. It is not too late for you to decide after then.’

‘Do you mean that GFO (Global Financial Organization) has already been to us?’

‘Positively with us, and Johanna, you have made one mistake, the portfolio is not the dependence on our target, but we should make their roles to incept our global future. I need our IPO in the autumn, on the same day as the last year when Fldora went public. However, in ahead of it, we are going to arcxxxvii

range the risk-free portfolio, concomitantly with the formal announcement of our acquisition, and this is also the request of… have you recognized of whom?’

‘Mr.Trinder.’

‘Yes, you are correct, and nothing should be spoiled from now on.’

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Under the roof-sheltered baseball stadium with thousands of spectators,“W’d Morale Financial Fiesta” was taken place in the summer of 1991, the corporate sponsors were, for instance, entertainment, alcohol, fabrics, health and construction, they were Rudo’s investment partners.

Quent as the master of ceremony introduced the special guest amid the executives, Ms.Perez whose entourage was the eminent professors as her financial adviser, the pedigreed academics, the hordes of cheers and standing ovations, in her smile, she stood for the microphone,‘To be consecrated by all the people in this nation, my celebration of this successful trade is not enough only by my words, but today, I am here with the government admission on the IPO between W’d Morale and Mellet.’ The thundery claps once muffled her voice, but she muted them with her casual signal, her palm was to the audience,‘For this day, there is one thing I shall apologize to the board directors, because of our request to urge the announcement of the portfolio, which the people who are here, and the viewers who are watching us, will participate.’ Johanna glanced Rudo, unexpectedly, he noticed it, and turned to her for his nod, and his attention was reversed to the one onstage.

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Our GDP has increased nearly 150%, the inflation rates so far have been accumulated to approximately 50%, the net export has been reduced because of our growing prices, but our domestic activities have never been diminished. We need the action, as GFO couldn’t hide their wince during the last assembly, we need any adjustment to balance the world economy.

However, the difference in this time from the conventional method that moderates our consumer vigor is, I believe, the portfolio that is going to be issued by W’d Morale, it can be the rescuer from the discouragement, and the recession that would have inflicted all of us.

Whereby, I shall make question to you, will you give a pledge to the bastion that the people’s incomes are of the national incomes, and the national revenues are considered as the administrative revenues? Indeed, we have the benevolent institutions, as our DBEG maintains the plenty of conciliation with taxation. I am not able to levy my national trust on you, your government can’t impose such conviction, because of our country is ours, the people of this nation.’ The fervid acclamation was withdrawn but a quandary, only the presenter uttered to call for the next arena.‘Etienne Perez, the chief representative of the National Reserve, we appreciate for your speech, the endless theme of an epoch. And, now is the time to be with Dieter Sanchez, the chairman of W’d Morale.’ cxl

Sanchez casted his supremacy in front of the extensive screen as if the movie-theatre that showed the diagram, the vivid picture of the sample portfolio, in order to guide the basic structure of it, ‘Our financial product that is going to be published with Mellet, our partner for the upcoming deal, will be interpreted under the condition to imagine that we have already possessed our synergy.’ The target representatives were upright, there was applause when they did so.

‘This portfolio is titled as the risk-free portfolio, and it is defined provocatively, as our freedom from the defaults, because it guarantees the growth along with our economy, with the inflation premium. Of course, we have been loyal to the optimistic notion since we decided our initial interest rate as 35 % for the convertible option bonds from our banking sector, this is consisted of the average inflation rate for the past three years, plus 15% of your benefits. Moreover, our “risk-free” means that we may release you from all the financial aliments, since we have already fled you from the market sentiment, our aim is the transmutation of the systematic risk in the macroeconomy to our firm specific risk, because we have the power to solve it, as we have ever overcome with you, this can be the challenge, but our portfolio, actually, which I believe, the attainable capacity to be a panacea for the social predicament that would inflict in unpredictable conditions, year by year, cxli

month by month…within the severe reality that the market in a state of flux is unable to be testified not to depress in the future.

Now, you have been informed that our portfolio contains the convertible option securities, with no maturity, and you can convert these to our ordinary shares in every monthly opportunity, under your punctual review at the weekend, what does it do for you?

Only one existence of the whole components has already proclaimed the friendly implication with the floating nominal rates that are the yardstick of the sovereign bonds to be applied for the collective risk free rate, which we can’t control.

Our risk-free portfolio protects your benefits, and we also protect our substantial partner, Fldora, the bulwark of the empire is equal to your ramparts.

Please look at the screen, it lays out our portfolio that is well-balanced, it is made of the specified amount of shares within each of its value, the shares of Fldora stay in 25%, and this ratio is also adopted to the stocks of W’d Morale Venture Capitals, whereas the rest of 50%, this space is going to be taken up between the convertible bonds from the investment banking sector with Mellet, and very importantly, the entrepreneurs who will be quoted to open the feasible market trend, cxlii

the valuable shares of the five start-ups by the conduct of Fldora Private Equity, to get on VOLU for our product, and a set of new IPOs is separable as well as re-attachable to the whole. The ratio of this 50% will be always modified by us. The traders with the reasonable budgets are permitted to take an option whether you may begin your trade by exchanging the valuable shares, or rather by means of mutual funds that are formed by Mellet, in this case, your purchase can be the total units.

As a postscript, we are planning our discretionary portfolio in the near future, which is cooked up by yourselves, after we are certified the customary proficiency of each component.

The product is market tradable in person, with the practical feature that you are possible to take the straddled position, both in short and in long, you will call and your seller becomes another’s caller, don’t worry, the world never end.’ The blizzard of chortles, the chairman was purely grateful,‘I appreciate for your attendance that proves your interest. And it will be further explicit to intensify your trust in our development, I would like to introduce the central planner of our risk-free portfolio, Johanna Frobisher, the chief financial director of Fldora, and the specialist in the diverse province of W’d Morale. She was born in the family that owned the grain factory

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for our bread, after her diploma, her career was begun to be with us, and she has ever learnt from the experts.’ She was enclosed by a mass of people, her sissy face was statuesque as a male, but her slender shoulders were of the unruffled female.‘The strong advantage of our new product is realistically, the fulfillment of the common merit, the rates of liabilities are said to be counter-cyclical to our economy, and if the moderation is equal to the recession, the calamity would increase with the interest rates, thus, the securities as the bonds that are going to be issued from us, can work as your insurance.

Anyway, please remember the fact that albeit our elan, we have never been the element of the market proxy that is the standard portfolio, it reflects the status of trading, or rather I should say, the total attitude in the macro context. Nevertheless, we have just built the market relation, as the correlation with the entire economy, consequently, it is rendered as 0.5, one–half attachment to the prime embodiment, this is the ideal figure, which assures that our portfolio goes up together in a half potential with the major background, without saying, it has also sorely the unique prospects to increase, even in terms of decline, and this strategy will be reinforced by 50% of our portfolio, especially by the risk-free bonds.

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Regarding the two components that regularly dwell on the other half portion, inelasticity of Fldora and W’d Morale Venture Capitals fortifies against the unhealthy fluctuation, as you may know, “the risk-free” is commonly defined as the closest rate to zero volatility, and it has been evident that there has ever been no instability of their equities, in this case, the general formula concludes zero risk of the private investment to the stocks, and they are aloof from the economic downturn, after all, the double shield against danger is completed.’ There were once more the passionate crests over the theatre, the effusive approval, subsequently, the two steep lines were reflected on the screen as the symbol of their victory like the birds that had already flown to achieve the universe.‘Thank you, we are going to be the unfailing upward projectiles, and the industrial diversification, such as, our collaboration with the robust entrepreneurs, besides the immense distribution capacity, can establish the unbeatable effect against the nonspecific influence.

As I am the analyst, who is often requested to estimate the financial performance twenty-four months ahead for the briefings, I have been endeavoring to suffice the numerical probabilities of the products. Let’s look at the conventional binomial tree, and I hope this to assist your clever decisions. The tree indicates the predictable share trends along with the time. At cxlv

the stage of zero that is the present status of your purchase, the value of your stocks, then, as we go, there is the potential either you have, up or down, and how do you hypothesize the price vagaries with the probabilities by the comparison of each phase? Although the variance would bear the vulnerable speculation, our sensational idea designates the arithmetic complexity only as 50%, in accordance with the concept that differences of both the prices and subjective presumptions are allocated to produce the magnitude, for example, it is 2.00 between 2.00 and 4.00, and it might be also minus 2.00, which depends on the degree of your calibration, but it may be always able to establish đ in some sense, this can be the same as the covariance of stocks, to move together, or in opposite direction, how is the distance between them? Precisely, the magnitude is the metaphorical jargon of our team with the R&D, since the two objects in great extent emit great power, when they meet. Nevertheless, the study has been, yet out of our reach, and finally, we are certain with our rigorous analysis of your fascination, why do you invest us? Your reasons protect us from all the risks. The portfolio is going to be published by this winter, and our progress will be regularly reported either formally or informally.’ The massive excitement from the audience, Quent was making access to the climax, while the orchestra was arranged for the contemporary solo pianist. cxlvi

Zholdin was situated in the far-fetched gallery, with the canteen girl, she was rather crazy for the presenter, when the strings began to flow with the grand piano, he whispered to her, ‘The increasing two factors like the demand and supply during the peak load, or it can be said as the two factors that the optimal trend is promised, in this case, the coordinates are arranged under the upslope 45 degree line to the right, in other words, the increasing crossovers are commonly set under the quarter phase of 180 degree, as a whole, it depicts the line chart that is consisted of the horizontal side and vertical one, and these indicate the causal factors. Does the quarter based portfolio serve the perfect ratio ?’4 ‘What are you fussing about? Shall we scratch the beat?’

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In the clear summer, the twigs were shuffled on the reins of the breeze in the courtyard accessed to Sanchez’s office, Etienne who was in her long sleeve outfit,‘The end is, I mean the end that is going to be bound to our capital is despicably unkind, and our unpromising economy is more likely to be dejected.’ She visited the headquarter with her deputy and the representative of the central bank, after the frolic fiesta that the sybaritic caption would have said,“The supernal carnival of immortals.”

On her evocative prelude, her deputy revealed the latest financial results, in order to show the status of the government, ‘Mr.Dieter, are you going to buy up our nation?’ The deputy cut the swathe with a whiff of his humor, before the severity.

‘As you see, the people of our country have been at the pinnacle of their vitality, our unemployment rate has decreased to 0.16%, our spending for health care from 35% to 2%, defense and security, less than 10%. However, the state finance has been tremendously dour, indeed, our total assets have been $1.156 trillion, our liabilities have occupied 86%, furthermore, the security debts held in public, $4.843 trillion, our payable has been approximately $2.517 trillion, this connotes the fact that such sovereign would be also failed less than 4% threat, and nowadays, our people have been loosing their bases for our treasury bills with 30 years maturity, a fixed rate.’ Hugo cxlviii

made his suggestion,‘The increased state ownership over us solves your hindrance.’

‘The budget program from DBEG makes annual restriction on our sponsorship for the enterprises to be less than $30 billion, in the case that we shall break this limit, there would be a setback, but we have to raise the ceiling, as it may, though our budget deficit that has been increasing to $488 billion.’

‘The golden shares assure the government to be our controller, and if your administration takes leverage for these, the sovereign would come to the terms with the national banks.’

The chief of the central bank affirmed his opinion,‘The national bank has been the trustee of Fldora since the leveragedbuy-out of Private Equity, and we can be yours as well, then, the stability of monetary circulation with the portfolio can be much sustainable.’

‘The operating income of Fldora has been recently covered by our investment to the R&D sector with us, realistically, the free cash flow from their financial activities has been enormous, regarding our portfolio issue, it is going to be leaped, and they can make leverage from our banking sector.’ Hugo put the file on the table, but Etienne,‘We have to invent the new arithmetic to read these financial reports that we have already had. And the reason of our visit today is not within the cxlix

negative intent against your macro economic intervention, but rather we would like you much more, and I suppose that GFO won’t object to my approach, in fact, the domestic riskfree rate is the consequence of the global medium in thrall to the average currency rates, and by our preferred GDP growth, we are the state that has been making phenomenal development, currencies are the amorphous entity under the vague law, the most is the highest, or the most is the lowest, but the least can be the highest, or the least is the lowest. Your portfolio is likely to posses the qualitative stateliness with your quantitative certainty.’

‘When it comes to the operation, it may appear as each criterion of the economy as much discreet, and we have ever tackled with it by making the cohesion to be our real option.’

‘However, the status has triggered the necessity of our adjustment as well.’

‘What is in your mind, Ms.Perez?’

‘The portfolio can be the proxy of VOLU, you know, Mr.Mayer, nowadays, even the elementary schools use “Financial Quo” as their texts, which means the stock trade has already obtained the same status as our fundamental social survival. We need the alternative way to control the interest rates, ultimately, the money supply. DBEG has been making ascl

sessment to publish the new law for tax relief, the dividend income tax on the independent investors is going to be reduced from 15% to 12%, and the corporate income tax on the specified issuers is also deducted, their present tax rates are discounted by the dividend rates. The specified business defines the companies after their public IPOs, within the limited period for three years, and this can assist your aim to encourage the entrepreneurs. Instead, we increase the primary corporate income tax on the existing major corporations to 26.2%, and 36.2% from each original rate. These are announced within this month after review, but the fundamental structures are not changed.’ The central bank sighed in his contentment,‘The debenture for the state finance is, in our term, secured by the national property, for example, the remaining utilities among the dominancy of Fldora, because the senior loan has already been for the sovereign bonds, but with the fixed rate 20% without maturity.

And we would like to offer 10% of our ownership of your business with the ten voting rights in each share. The stocks are directly belonged to us under the title of the government.’

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Sanchez was making anodyne attachment to the discussion,‘I appreciate for your fair offer, and the thing has been felt as good to be heard.’ ‘“The promise of stable monetary circulation” particularly in regard to our portfolio, as you have mentioned, we need to consolidate the detail of it, to be certain.’ Hugo’s closing question. ‘Albeit it can be gradually moulded to be the leveled status, but if you say...we do have our deal for it. According to your decision on the bonds of the portfolio, which is going to be begun from 35%, as a result that you have insisted on wealth of your investors, our rate can be fixed 20%, but in the case that the credit risk requires the risk premium, this will be the adjustment of the principal, and we will also admit the interest rate swaps between the fixed interest rate and the floating rate of the securities. I mean, the syndicated national bank loans to the people, or rather for the future in the global scale, the leading bank will be the central bank, for all the people to take part in your risk-free portfolio. The horizon is determined by the individual status as well as by their requests that we can usually accept. Additionally, for your contingencies, we offer your option between the general term loan, and the revolving line of credit that is secured by your assets, the condition of maturity is the same as the individual investors,

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but our commitment follows your necessity to some limits that you decide.’ The deficit free portfolio was, exactly as the title, the security coupons which would be increased were to be paid semiannually, and the dividends would be also raised, the weird formulaic market performance was their confidence, their growth could run faster than the ongoing inflation, it was admitted that the market participants would be both the inflation and deflation-free, furthermore, the financial device might support them to avoid a fiasco.

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Chapter IV: WDMO & WDMM

Rudo made his energetic swift from the bed at 5.00 am, the alarm clock was seldom in motion, and albeit his sleep was sheer deep, it obeyed his determined rest, he could easily observe the fresh sky, when he pressed the button on the sideboard. He took jog every morning around his private lawn, nearly two hundred acres that encompassed his house, his rhythmical gallop, his vitalized physical circulation, the condition was enough for him to revise their acquisition of Mellet that had been settled as if W’d Ventures’ routine, even though their trainers shoes had been instantly trapped, it would have been only a glimpse of their feet,“Your proposal 33.5% of us, but the law states 50% purchase above 35% ownership, there is no need to be frugal in this occasion.”

“Yes, indeed.”

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though, it had been felt utterly within the destined nature, the radiance from the billboard, WDMM, had been too much to be gazed at.

Rudo hadn’t actually been protracted to spare the space in his desk drawer for the synergy as stocks, as well as for the portfolio that had been issued shortly after that, then one old monochrome photo had been discovered, some parts had already lost the identity, such as the soldiers’ faces that had been glittered by the groaning flame to torch the heaps of papers, additionally, the camel stains on the edge had caused his wonder whether he would have disposed of it or not, but it had been preserved, since “Charitable Mind” had been reeled off from the elegiac mold.

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The entrepreneurs of the portfolio had ever been umpired

by Johanna on the leagues of Fldora Private Equity, the top ten tournament of the latest financial results weighed by the growth rates. The road show had been by means of the media surveys, or the executives’ direct visits to garner the raw reactions from the fund-raisers. Significantly, the recent research activities of the start-ups had been scored, and added to the pro-forma as the forward ratios, in this respect, the social circumstances had been the most of it, the statistical results had been extended to learn human behavior, the obstinate customs, and their potential to break the abstract rules. Consequently, the machine producer and modem manufacturer of the tele-network had been elected by 5/5 votes, for the perspectives of their collaborations with Fldora, by exchanging mutual data to be the applied science of F transmission in high speed, and it had been followed by the microwave oven producer in lingering nostalgia of Fldora Kitchen, but they had intensively focused on the wave technology itself.

The corporate investors had assigned the rest of the repertoires, especially amidst the kin of the stadium patronage, for their favorable attitudes since the fiesta, conspicuously, the private limited sportswear firm had been comprised of the skilled stylists, they had ever designed the costumes for the big names, and their altruistic contribution as the discounted clvi

clothes under $10, with their partner who had been contained in the portfolio in the associative opportunity, they had fashioned all kinds of soap, by the eclectically impeccable method that had been the integration between the organic and chemical ingredients, those had been attested a high quality, the skin trouble free plus low cost, a 500 ml bottle of shampoo under $5, their clients had been from hair salons to constructions, the intimate factories had already been esteemed in the urban areas.

In due course of the completed process, the champions had been franchised as “Subsidiary Held(s.d.h).�

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The exponential sprout of the risk-free portfolio had been well-nigh beyond the formulaic performance, but it had been unable to be contended by everyone, particularly the short selling of the young consortium had been the popular contrivance among the individual investors, the profuse parities that had been made within one week, had earned their benefits to buy further shares. Mell had been the main proprietor of this trading, not only to open the brokers accounts with the advisory services, but when the expanding number of their clients had eventually arrived at the legal cap, the mutual investor alliances had been formed to exert the hedges, the rapid deals had led the traders to buy the entire portfolios, the brandishing torrents had rushed under the exceptional mastery.

However, the precautionary law on hedge funds had become too tight to provide the capacity to the extrusive fecundity, so that until the passable solution, Mell, had made spinoffs to rally the scions’ ownership of the parental companies by their retained earnings, besides, the relative title,“s.d.h” had verified active efficacy, the independence hadn’t been overwhelmed under the Insider Act, and most of all, the members of the integrated R&D had been bestowed the conformable aptitude that their communication had been on the special subject only without their private financial topics.

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The chauffeur chimed his doorbell in the morning, Rudo reposed himself on the feathery rare seat to arrive at the general monthly meeting with the portfolio executives and chief shareholders. The top agenda in the autumn finale was the global expedition, firstly, his announcement of the ongoing project, F international pipeline that figuratively indicated the expansion of the overseas distribution, particularly, the countries with COCYY and ZOBGA that could possibly build the reciprocal market relation with them.

COCCY was acknowledged as the second to VOLU, COCCY index had ever achieved more than 50% of IDUOM in bull, regardless, the multi-national index in the widest economic range. The central trade building was located in a cold climate, thus the reasonable electricity would be welcomed. And ZOBGA, by the seasonal effect, their humid and scorching tropical sunlight could be a niche, nevertheless of their small index in COCCY average, their lower currency value would reflect the hopeful panorama of the project, and this country was where the Energy & Research Center had ever carried the novel technologies over the world.

As the opening statement, Branden addressed the cross continental project,‘It has been structured the exports of the frozen ice cubes, and if the progressive negotiations are agreed, our capital costs will be estimated in detail. clix

However, anyway, we have to proceed our research to the next stage, each geographical distance between our nation and our partners, their topological features and consumer profiles, optimistically that our interstate facilities can contribute to the direct energy transmission to the lands. The task for the node expansion itself has been, to be honest, not the hurdle of our R&D sector that has already been solved, technically, it can be the extension of the hexagonally meshed network accessed to each terminal. Additionally, their contrasting characteristics and market trends have been feasible as the balancing factor, such as the load variations between the base hours and the peak distributions, these will be adjusted with the world–time gaps and seasonal personalities.

Our trade has been offered no tariff, and the resource is going to be shared in mutual viability, because of our proficient operating cost that may sling off the inflation hook as well as the currency dilemma. Nowadays, I have been decisively consolidated for the free electricity, which can’t be only the phantom, simply as our benefits are broadened, and cost and risk are diluted, globally.’

On a lap of his talk, the representative of WDMM, intoned their enhancement to the diplomacy, it was the comprehensively utilized financial glossary, ‘Albeit a fluffy irony might be attached, as we have been stimulated by the senior director, clx

the law of one price, exactly, the perfect market, if it doesn’t make suppression within the ones’ negative connotation, and it has been the goal of our business. For the beneficial trade, we would like to announce our serial mergers with the banking corporations abroad, which will be conducted for a few years, while there has been the auspicious fact that our foreign investors have been becoming dominant in the market, we will start our work with the international partners, hedge funds with them, as well as spin-offs over the subsidiaries, since the financial jurisdictions are, in some nations, regulated in much freedom, the pitch can be almost infinite, for instance, the accounting principle makes no constraint, if the employed currencies are out of the standard in the participated countries, there can be the accessible global exchange.

To be certain that my compliment to the perfect market is exempt from our initial capital raise with the variant interest rates, in this case, Mr.Bongway, you shall avail of leverage, in other words, you shall take the parities, but not yet for the fair stability during our preparatory stage, hence you can go along with the following progress.’

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been among the top values, and the divergence would be, presumably, at least, a preliminary hinge, even though it might be only the sporadic midget that can be soon resolved. And as you may know, Mr.Bongway, the future exchange rate is commonly rendered up, being based on the risk-free interest rates of the two trading countries, then the law of one price means, in this way, the equal currencies to be formed by the present exchange rate out of the future rate, in fact, we don’t have any friction with our market, do we? Furthermore, if our idea is adapted to the macro economy, the direction is much blissful for all.’ Hugo, as the superintendent of the banking sector, wedged the frontier that was mainly managed by the former executives of Mellet,‘Honestly, we have been, yet within the controversy, because it is the implication for us to directory handle the money supply, by the hasty methods, for example, the hedges and spin-offs, the higher currencies can be easily adjusted, by controlling our outstanding shares in each country, moreover our portfolio has already been the state device via the central bank with 10% of their ownership, we have been almost the substitution of sovereign bonds.’

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‘I don’t reprove you, the arbitrage is frequently every trader’s candid favor, but it is within the law of the market perpetuity that the stock prices are up, because of the buyers who increase, but the sellers get on the bandwagon as well, eventually, these are normalized, this logic constitutes the market efficiency, on the other hand, our business has arrived at where you have encapsulated so far, but it has equally been, within the law, within the stereotypical hypothesis.’

‘I appreciate for your understanding, I know that you have been always of the determinate profession in the tentative financial world, and in this view, we should advance toward the future, which can make another goal, even it has been within the formulaic upward relief. Then, our nub is, we would like to issue the foreign bonds to the local markets by the local currencies, being promptly followed by the international bonds that have the option of currencies, for this time dependent strategy, it is possible to be compatible with the conservation law. And, this can be parallel to the global publication of our portfolio, but we need the administrative referendum on the negotiable sine qua non, for the discretionary portfolio under the different national immunity, and we can promise our beneficial management, particularly for the corporate bonds as well as for the bureaucratic enforcement that is made on us.’

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After the meeting, Hugo waved Rudo’s vehicle, albeit his individual work had been much undermined, apparently, not only him, but also all the members, nevertheless, as for the capital coordinations with the charisma, everybody had been unswerving to their duties, surely that the ends of their real options had been existed, as if those had already been prepared beforehand.

The slope was ascending to the genuine reality, the water of the global ocean was going to earn the scope, so that the depth as well, whether it could soar to the moon whose orbital motion was not because of the movement of the sky, but by the celestial continuation, if the aerial existence hadn’t been there, there would have been only the unperceptive infinity, though a ruse to the erratic sights, as if the formula of the future exchange, the resembled conundrum for eyes of all, no matter, the future strike price was calculated by the multiplication with the exponential time growth towards the upcoming execution date, the symbol of the time ‘T’, ‘Ts’ were set in the fraction outside of the brackets that embraced each currency ratio, it was appeared as if a couple of ‘T’ eliminated each other, and what would happen was left stationary to us, in the mythical intransigence, as if there would have ever been no change at all.

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Chapter V: FTM 1

When Johanna had been promoted at the end of the previous year, as the general chief financial officer of W’d Morale and the highest post of Venture Capitals, there had been no dissent, since the board had admitted her ardent devotion to the portfolio, with her compelling trial of the unfading surge in abstract physicality, but the relegation of Hugo had been shaded from the main focus,‘Ms.Frobisher leads the cue for our pool, it’s already been when the one clicks the ball, I mean, in our field that is the worldwide vista.’ Had he said.

The joyful celebration was propelled, as Rodell also became the head of the banking sector whose future wife would be Yolanda and as his secretary, the new couple was formally introduced during the second visit of Ms.Perez,‘We may discuss for those buds that are to be blossomed.’ The spring verdure was undulated in the afternoon with the pellucid shadow, as if it was waiting for the threshold to be the crux of the matter, ‘We have had some coalitions, Mr.Lapin, he sits for the first po-

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sition of the central bank from this year.’ The man in his red nose and stocky built wore a grey jacket, the former CEO of the major national bank that Sanchez and Johanna were shortly aware as he had been for the trustee bank of Fldora,‘I have been felt as even curious in this inflation without any agitation. However, you have been realized that our operating sluggishness has been, in this case, not adequate to be expressed as our pit.’

‘What has been your pit?’ Sanchez. ‘Nearly 35% of our bonds are going to be matured by the end of this year, and we can’t be optimistic about the renewals.’ His comment was as if the feigned cul-de-sac, his thickly dyed hair was contrapuntal with his solid accent that was followed by Johanna to Etienne.

‘The shrewd approach to the exigency makes superior effect, as it doesn’t interrupt the growth of the national economy, and our growth disrupts nothing.’

‘The causality of deficit is vary, but if the resolution had been guaranteed, correspondingly, with the divergence, in some sense, there would have been no status as a deficit. Our leverage has been plainly cardinal to organize the state finance, and this has been structured for the most of it, utterly reasonable and beneficial to the lenders, but in this context, we have experienced a plight, and now is the time when the

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people have no longer relied on security by the country for their lives.’

‘Your munificence has been proved, because our entrepreneurs have been nestled under DBEG, for the deducted costs to make their free cash flows that are their bountiful nutrition, except the fact that their garments have already been too tight, I shall secure my sector in certain continuity.’ Rodell signified his provision, but Lapin straightforwardly accelerated his appeal in much greater extent,‘Shall we discuss on the third stage, right now? Our proposal won’t be your retard as well. The sovereign default, 30% can be substituted by nearly 20% of your shares, hopefully, in this time, our position is 20% of WDMM.’ Etienne supplemented,‘You have established the spectacular corporate empire, the financial tools have been significant for our diplomacy, but the reality has been under the peculiar illusion, as the agglomeration of private business, but it precisely, the centralization of the world, as if the centralization by the private capital. There has been no exaggeration included, but each country’s ownership of your shares has fulfilled the conditions to exist as the territorial maneuver, for example, 10% of Fldora stocks has made valid subjugation to the one with 15%, and their mutual funds have built the sectorial pyramids in the countries, if the tunneling is made by the distributed rights, such as voting and ownership, it may alter the clxvii

structures of authorities. Never mind if the power would increase by the global portfolio, because your single products have already caused the flood of our currency, and even so, the diminishing gaps have prevented GFO to intervene, because of their ideal to make balance in accordance with the law of one price, as they have already admitted your international bonds, which has been heading towards the currency equilibrium.’

‘The general board will hold a plebiscite on the state proposal of 20% WDMM.’ Johanna prescribed her temporal coda, yet ‘We shall also aspire to be understood that our global portfolio can make the proportional risk conversion as long as the balanced nominal rates are promised, the different national immunity would be the tender factor, the discretionary portfolio is going to be supported by leverage from their domestic national banks, but the steady interest rate of our convertible bonds guarantees their sufficient benefits, furthermore, our liberated hedge funds enable the dissolution against the insuperable pyramids, the improved constitutions will be bargained.’

‘The pulp notes have never annoyed people, when everybody makes easy consumption of $200 milk bottles, as it has been what so ever.’ Sanchez in his loaded voice.

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On the next weekend, after the board brilliantly won the buy-up of the national bonds, 30%, Rodell and Yolanda’s honeymoon was begun, in order to advertise the discretionary portfolio, which the issue was going to be in the autumn, the overseas itinerary was fastidiously planed by the executives.

They visited many generation facilities, driving through the capital city where the tough architecture that was made of mixed materials, such as stones, bricks and concrete, not only for the sturdy build to be preserved, but the elaborated colors and engravings also praised them, with the transmission poles, there had already been only few wires,‘F from your land has been directly distributed to the urban areas, but for some rural villages, we have had our plants to import the cubes of energy until the completion of our domestic infrastructures, the contributions of F to the people’s lives have been resolutely profound.’ The administrator from COCCY market explained.

The vehicle ran along the coastline, the highly raised towers were the global transmission terminals, and being meshed to the end users. Interestingly, despite the freezing weather on average, the couple had never worn their overcoats since their arrival,‘Our thermometer has ever frequently recorded far-below zero, but there hasn’t yet been since last year, and this spring has been as if the Antarctic mid-summer. The peoclxix

ple are going outside and the employment has increased, but the burgeoning economy has been exceedingly owed to our trade with you.’

‘This country’s currency rate was so strong, $1 used to make the value of your 0.5, but recently, it has been flattened to be 1 to 0.9.’ Yolanda. ‘It’s been, to be honest, out of our concern, the fair deal can be much easier within the equal value.

If our goal agrees with you, the stable exchange rate is the indication to be on the same destiny. Currencies often represent the resemblance of each nation, and we are pleased with the improved index of COCCY, especially, by financials, several of our independent banks and investment management firms are the subsidiaries of WDMM, they have occupied 90% to compose the market proxy, and they have been the holding companies that contain our domestic business, some of the private utilities with F are theirs, whereas our currency has been realistically depreciated, but our market index has been in the everlasting upsurge, we would like to catch up IDUOM, but whenever we have been about to reach, it’s already been distant, the race of bulls, very optimistic, indeed, our people are to be your investor after they have earned in our market. Additionally, our commodity index has been verily favorable, since your start-ups have shone bright perspective to us, we are looking forward to working with your entrepreneurs.’ clxx

‘Our global discretionary portfolio can be thoroughly active, hence, our young will be no longer treated as one array, and our aim has also been the commodity trade by their viability for our daily lives, in accordance with the life status and culture development of each country, for example, the telenetwork technology and microwave, these can be the diversified collaboration with the R&D sectors of the international corporations, or rather for the strategic investment, reciprocally, we may achieve exchange of our invention in the near future.

I hope that COCCY index would be much closer to IDUOM, our portfolio will promise to underpin it. These days, our market correlation with VOLU has been becoming perfect, exactly 1, it has been no longer the introductory epitome 0.5. According to the governmental request, our portfolio has been regarded as the standard proxy, and we have been the attached index to IDUOM, we are the domestic yardstick or the barometer of all the investors, and this has been one of our achieved goals as the risk conversion, the perfect correlation with the perfect optimism.’ Rodell demonstrated his ample providence.

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WDMM, the Ramseys had been the old dignitary as the financial eminent since centuries of the past. The museum-like living room where the walls were adorned with the intricate paintings that depicted the agrarian lives, having once abounded in the area, then, Mr.Ramsey pointed to the mountainous spectacle from the balcony,‘Many old peasants went through these summits for their uttermost revenues, the advantageous competence has been since those days. We are pleased to be with you, Mr.Trinder is our far-relative, our ancestors initiated the financial business as their primordial honor, they were the original investors to establish our market, have you already been to our trade floor?’

‘No, not yet.’ The administrator answered, who should have been the introducer as if he had been forgotten to do so.‘They are the mature partner of Mell, the subsidiary abroad. As we discussed on the way, our recent currency rate and market performance have led the growth of our interest rates, such as, more than 20%, which might have been roughly your earlier domestic rate, actually the economy has been said to be in huge inflation without suffering from it, but nowadays, our demand of sovereign bonds has decreased. Albeit the state is the accumulation of individuals, there can be the different dictum for the private capital.’

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‘The partnership has ever been successful to have the currency future contract, in our case, as the higher rate, it has ever been at one time, considered more than provision, and our relationship has been flourished since the opportunity of F cross-continental energy that we have been funding. The advancement has been followed by our lending offers to the people who want to buy our shares as well as yours in VOLU, the floating rates have been dealt with the interest rate swaps that are the risk aversion.

This country has been, historically, under the caring restriction on investment, because that the stock trade has been the common method, it’s been within the corresponding sense of labor with agriculture, thus our tax relief, the interest tax shield is also applicable to an individual, which means that the earnings from the leveraged investments are endowed the tax deduction according to the interest rates of the debts. This investor-friendly attitude is, not only in our country, but also allover this continent, such as, the countries of ZOBGA, they have further flexible regulations. Of course, we are of the Accounting Standard, but as you have already observed our construction, it assures the worthy depreciation effects, thanks to our ancestors, the antique value has never been subject to the mandatory report.’ Yolanda was convinced by the owner’s elucidation,‘Perhaps, in some way, it is appreciated as the goodclxxiii

will, it has been the curious obscurity that it is not actually the intangible assets, but being categorized into these, the antique value is the private value, and I suppose that the powerful building can’t be afraid a natural disaster.’ However, her spouse,‘Your nation has been also within unusual peril of the state deficit. How can you speculate the administrative response to our portfolio?’

‘Our country, or rather I shall say, it is the custom that this continent, traditionally, doesn’t distinguish between the governmental profits and individual profits, because it is unnecessary, it is only the thing that the nation organizes the system and policy for the benefits of the people, thus we don’t make complaint. We have the state fiscal reports, but our government belongs to us, thus the deficit is nobody’s dismay as long as our wealth is secured. I know that your firm bought up the failed sovereign bonds, 30%.’

‘The purchase has been described as 20% of our banking sector by the government.’

‘Then, 10% golden shares have been directly belonged to the central bank, haven’t they?’

‘Exactly.’

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spoiling the time for our recreation. You are appeared as my son, he is going to be the next candidate to be the national leader.’

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Under the sweltering south western sunlight, it was the final destination of the couple, as if the prosperous global project had already been evident in well-designated terrain where the purlieus of the Energy & Research Center exhibited the skyscraper of F, the residential area was reducing the poles, ‘Those might be why you are the pioneer of engineering.’ The representative from the institution on the driver’s seat, who was next to the executive of ZOBGA, answered to Rodell,‘Our small index has been still in delay but the depression, we have never felt frustration for it, our result has been because of our low retention rate, we have kept confident that our invention improve everything, thus our monetary circulation, or efficiency has been the fastest, we are able to be on a level with you in the near future.’

There was no spiraled construction, nevertheless, the perpendicular structures were compactly in the equivalent proportion, the representative continued his talk,‘Mr.Frobisher, have you found that all business and public places in our country have been monitored by the surveillance cameras with the voice recording mechanism, our people are permitted to be out of the Insider Act within their privacy, the law is the foremost in all around the world, and this situation explains our sense of value with the common merit, it is not the information itself, but precisely, our credence to the technological adclxxvi

vancement and truth, regardless, our financial regulation has been the liberated condition to the foreign traders, such as, by the proper use of media and the public announcement, the business can quickly attain their progress, especially for hedge funds, as your sector has offered to us, there has been no limitation on both the number of participants and amount, in fact, approximately 60 % of ZOBGA has been consisted of our foreign partners, and the Energy & Research Center has been owned by the state and private institutions, so that your discretionary portfolio, presumably, can open the remarkable access to our local people to be the individual investors, our market will make unprecedented growth.’

While the car was passing the spacious empty site, the personnel of the center began his instruction,‘The place has been restored for a few years, it is nearly 500 square miles, our noteworthy engineering is not only for the materialistic modernization, but also for human quality, the immigrants will populate there, and they can take part in our market without being disturbed by the rule, because the working and public places are where the lives are displayed, this is the intrinsic tenet, and prerequisite to our technological breakthrough.’

After for a few minutes, the gigantic white edifice emerged to the guests, and their identification was cautiously checked in the gate,‘The area spreads over 750 acres, the accommoclxxvii

dated extension includes the grocery stores to the hair salons, the flat blocks of our employees are remote from the laboratories, then, our vehicle is going to arrive at where the transmission system was firstly experimented to be F.’

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In the evening, they were invited to ZOBGA exchange market, comparing with VOLU, the single erection was sorely on ten floors, and the traders were on the desks, the couple was informed by the executive that the tele-network system had been renovated with the import modems, having been manufactured by the portfolio entrepreneur. As the ground floor was used for the regulatory announcement, they were escorted to the downstairs where the private lounge was.

‘I have been astonished at your employees who are exceptionally organized well.’ Rodell was sitting for the menus that were about to garnish the dining,‘However, regarding our global portfolio, the freedom will be the discretionary option that is adjustable to the state immunity, thus our issue will tremendously influence over the national economy, and I wonder how your government would react.’

‘We don’t have any control on individual wealth, the wealth that is made by each of us. And the government is defined differently, it is the system of organizations led by the Energy & Research Center, the system to regulate us, overall, we are out of the plutocratic concept.’

‘On our return, to what extent shall I reveal what I witnessed today?’

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‘All of them.’ Yolanda for her partner, ‘His concern might be, because that the transmission technology was firstly bought

by Neocum, and our investors took part in it.’

‘In such case, the proposal of abolishment comes first. We have many clients overseas, they usually know the project cancellation beforehand, thus they offer the buy-up, and this process is legally admitted in terms of the foreign trade and state profit. I will tell you more about the Insider Act, because it is the adjunct to our status quo.

We have the surveillance sectors in the Energy & Research Center, and the licensed experts command these, but even the leaders are limited to acquire what the cameras and sound recordings take. For instance, the leader A for the sector A, the A has the right to monitor his employees b, c, d, and as soon as the A receives the report that has the potential of infringement, the A can watch it, thus the A has the authority over b, c, d, and the illegal matter that is going to be sent to the central system by the A, on the other hand, b, c, d are responsible for what they are watching throughout their working hours.

As there are more than the ten sectors, the identical servos are executed over the places, the sector B under the B, and the offense is reported to the B, but generally, the violation involves the scale of convolutions, thus both the A and the B are unable to obtain the whole. The information from the insiders clxxx

is known by the insiders only, thus it is enough effective to be made by arrest, owing to the careful investigation by each state department, consequently, there has been no need to be disclosed even to the government, what has been happening from beginning to end.’

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Chapter VI: FTM 2

In the vestiges of summer, when Kurtis unleashed his hampered office, he was rueful to discover, the outside breeze was much refreshing than the apparatus that was strenuously exerting the sizzling air, and his voice crackled on the phone, ‘However, the mortal 30% of our nation, which should have been compromised, half a month ago.’

‘The diva has been absent, even for the state announcement from Treasury, all the spotlights have been absorbed by Mr.Lapin alone.’

‘The guy sweated, frequently.’

‘Yes, he did, and I have been utterly impossible to make appointment with him for our private interview.’ Quent who was at the other end, picked out his schedule note from the in tray, “Full” and “Rejected”, the failed records to occupy the financial representatives.

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‘It has been verily in your realm, but if I exploit the giddy jibes, I can get into it, such as,“How do you react the recent drastic reputation that our nation has been in broke?’”

‘By my profession, though as the tip journalist who digs up for the tombstone with the index, doesn’t call only 30% of the state finance that has been belonged to the monopoly dynasty as bankruptcy.’

‘However, the situation has been totally unheard.’

‘The point is, they have got 20% of the dynasty, because of the maintenance that the macro-economy has been under their control.’

‘Isn’t this only the placebo?’

‘Our sophisticated simplicity is regarded as elegance, as long as the participants can earn.’

‘The people have swelled, so has our state, it may be ultimately, too big to be visible on the Earth. The stocks have been as if the seeds that have got their roots, and the optimal for finance has been promulgated that it is to live in the future.’

‘Kurtis, I think that you have got the better head.’

‘Thanks to be from you, and your intuitive extrapolation might be what I have ever believed it as your wit, the agency cost of the ruin has been said to be fractal to the size of busiclxxxiii

ness, it’s been considered as approximately less than 5 % of the total assets, but the small firms are much inflicted, such as 12 %, the difficulty is that the charitable character as a nation, or rather I should say, the government is… I am not able to speculate how it would be processed, for their liabilities, for our continuity, their debts have been almost permanent, the principal payment has been usually made by means of new debts, whether they will do it or not.’

‘If we would like the synopsis of the pseudo-corruption, it can be as the position of the authority, such condition would be treated as the re-organization, whereas in much snappy expression that would be analogous to the corporations, it can be the pre-pack. Their function will be maintained, their appeal for their restoration is going to be submitted to the court, and the rights of the creditors are voted by themselves, which the firm’s equities should be allocated to them, but huge discount has to be admitted until the full recovery.’

‘Am I correct that 10% is the government golden shares of Fldora, and 20% is WDMM, the 10% has been secured by the national assets for their leveraged purchase, specifically, the regulated utilities that have already been within the remnant of droplets, oh...20%... that’s all right to be... that’s all right to be.’

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‘Kurtis?’

‘Is there any problem of it? Even though in the case of business acquisitions, the Takeover Code states, 35% buy-up should be the half ownership, but it’s been raveled out as merely my pessimistic misunderstanding, because Mr.Lapin’s perspiration has been as if his agony for our lack of comprehension.’

‘30% in total has been directly belonged to the central bank, under the administrative guidance, that’s all that we should understand, anyhow optimistic or pessimistic.’

‘The freedom of emotion levers my recognition. One of human efforts throughout our civilization has been how the calculation of probability can be escaped from our frenzy.’

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After Kurtis hung up, it didn’t take time by the evening that he had to sort the circumstances none of his experiences so far. In his juvenile mind, his argument had ever been correct to pursue the authenticity, and the exposure of his defeat had only implied the inevitable truth out of hand, within his cinch, because of his disclosure under his servitude to justice for the people, yet in this occasion, when the sun was setting into the horizon, he was aghast at the breaking news from Finance of Your World, as it was the devious reality, having been swindled out of time and the brain, which had been etching on it second by second, it revealed him, unacknowledged Quent, who hadn’t yet known what his colleague had already been informed, during their phone discussion.

‘Urgent special broadcast from 7.00 pm, the global portfolio is going to be published earlier than the original plan, that is to say, by this autumn, due to the deteriorating health of Mr.Perez whose following season has to be spent in the intensive care unit. We will invite the three executives, Rudo Trinder, the CEO of Fldora, Dieter Sanchez, the chairman of W’d Morale, and Johanna Frobisher who is the general chief financial officer.’

The whirling epiphany, then, he took phone again, in order to get the entrance permission to be the spectator in where

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the live program was going to be aired, and he would be behind the fill light in his folded arms.

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‘President Perez is… I am evinced, the prosperous nation is his hope, and we are his people who long for the autumn to be the days of his recuperation as well as our success.’ Rudo spoke to the viewers, and Quent carried his question to Sanchez.‘Has there been any difficulty for the urgent preparation?’

‘It has been the affordable encounter, as the registration process has already been finished, and we are undertaking the domestic issue of our discretionary portfolio in the derivative active form within three months, this can be the time when the globalized fair trade would exert the boosting outcomes.’

‘The worldwide interest in your portfolio has exhibited the unprecedented excitement.’ Johanna,‘The status has been regarded as the collaboration by each national proficiency, indeed, considering the part of our ownership held by the central bank or rather, I shall say, the assisted part of our business, such as Mr.Lapin’s counsel to the national banks, since the recent products from our banking sector have demonstrated the collective harmony, nonetheless, we are the private business.’

‘The health insurance and student loan, I agree that these have been virtually equivalent to the social security.’

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‘We will distribute these products overseas, such as our risk-free mortgage can endorse purchase of foreign properties.’ Rudo properly perceived the chance to unveiled the second proposition,‘I would like this to be our future goal, and you may be impressed a little far-fetched, yet we are going to step in the legal privilege of our clients, and it involves the individual investors. Because of the sovereign bonds that were failed, we must be entrenched, internationally by the mutual support and subjective intimacy of our people, not only within the diplomats and business executives, as the broadened affinity is the synonym of the risk dispersion, it gradually reduces the viscosity, and the hazard becomes zero.

This will be the entitlement of the borderless entries to the countries where we have trade. This right is to be assigned to all our shareholders.’

‘It’s revolutionary, because the ones have been more than 70% of our state population.’

‘This approach has been under our focal analysis why the boarders have ever existed, such as for defense and security to confirm the identities, the travelers who pass the boundaries have to show who they are, but the registration process to be our shareholder guarantees them, more than the conventional papers.’ clxxxix

Potent logic, free from the conservative restriction, Kurtis unfettered his arms implicitly, but he had been looped until then, what had ever been the lag between him, and his mate who hadn’t yet been imparted the condition of President Perez, including the untimely issue of the global portfolio.

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The presenter and guests were faded out on the TV, Zholdin in the canteen, who had been watching it, but, in this time, he yearned for someone who would turn it off, and he would flap the operation manual, because of the mechanic malfunction on the day, this was also the reason why he was still in his working place at 9.00pm, despite he should have been on the dayshift, no one was allowed to leave the firm while the inspectors from the R&D sector were securing the normal standard.

“What a hinge of it! Look at this!” It had been approximately in the middle of the afternoon, one of the operators had pointed to his monitor, and as the swarming ensemble in uniform had witnessed “ERROR” that had been zapping the peculiar manifestation, instead of the regular flickering -1, 0, +1, 0,“Error…does it say… doesn’t it?” Someone had grumbled, another had picked the internal contact, then, again, everyone had gazed at the screen, yet the machine had already been restored to the formulaic indication,-1, 0, +1, 0.“What was that?”

F risk potential less than 0.001% that had been nearly equal to the worldwide destruction. After for an hour, the inspectors had been chartered to the control room, in their white gown as the medical practitioners for the automata,“Please continue your operation, we shall overhaul the function of the central motor, and our investigation shouldn’t disrupt you.” There had been the renowned face to everyone by the side of the comcxci

mander, he had been upright in his blue eyes, Marcelo had ever been interviewed by Kurtis, he had ever saved the corporation, and Zholdin had remained his single rapport with him, by his own passion.

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There was no attempt at the remote controller, but momentarily, the sound was switched to the assertive tone to notify the employees,“To the operators, to the operators, the inspection has been finished, return to the control room, return to the control room.” The chairs cracked, as the people separated themselves from those, correspondingly, Zholdin was stalled as ever, his habit since childhood, he couldn’t be entangled in the bustling crowd, inadvertently, he turned back where he had been, the elder staff for the canteen, the white kerchiefs were arranged along their temples, his canteen girl had gone, she had left in the earlier of the summer,“My family bought our house abroad, and as the official procedure has been completed, we are going to move out, and I will work by the seaside.”

“Wow, you are willful than I have known you.”

“Yes, I will.” The girl had been looked as rather distinctive among the people, who had been in those days, when they had been too banal to enjoy the monotonous lives, in fact, there had already been no necessity of their labor, since almost all the ones had secured enough fortunes from the cradle to the grave, under the perfect guarantee of wealth, irrespective of their routines to be continued or abolished, nevertheless, they had been loyal to the ordinary customs, they had worked, because it had been their destiny for their tomorrow, they had secxciii

lected $100 milk bottles rather than $200 ones, because they had always been with $100 ones, their investment had definitely the enticement, the constant progress of their shares, unbeatable, unbroken, perhaps, infinite, the accrued savings had been simply as their pleasure to look at, “Just Buy It”, as it had ever been someone’s satire on the newspaper, the dexterous financial complexity had already been as the jocular riddle on every Sunday.

Her family should have taken advantage of the perquisite, if so, they wouldn’t have been foisted the official hobble, but the land for the resort had been popular to have led the proactive decision, whether social fads had ever been under control as well as incentives of their mind, then, to what extent should those have been dredged up to find the answer? ‘How does it relate to me?’ Zholdin blurted out, whether or not, the end would be converged, he began his winding prance to the control room where all the operators had already huddled up.

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The clock was at 21.21,‘We apologize for our detained result.’ Marcelo read out the file,‘The failure of the system occurred at 14.12 on the day, the distribution monitor showed the sign of “ERROR” instead of the node status to be observed in normal performance. Regarding the defective incident on the screen, the inspector team from Fldora R&D, visited the place at 15.21 on the same day, the consequence of our examination is as follows: External flaws, none, internal flaws, none, monitoring imperfections, none, disturbances on the transmission and distribution system, none, disturbances on the generation system, none, and further potential of recurrence is within the defined probability that is less than 0.001%.’

‘I appreciate for your patience, and you are now released.’

The fluorescent white mists, permeating from the strikingly heightened street lamps, the illumination was as the evanescent artificial sun, in the automobile parking space over 500 acres, the grid for the cars, and the jet-black asphalt were sorely irradiated in supreme tranquility, the achievement of innovation, the ambition for evolution could be soothed in equanimity, no matter tomorrow would come or not, the distant transmission poles were emitting the red indicators, the night blue behind but the mind to attend, therefore, there was nothing to disturb Zholdin’s lame skip, his leg was too unwieldy with his paralyzed knee to catch up with Marcelo on the way. cxcv

The inspector got on his car, who was in his errand before the pedal, Zholdin jumped to the door of his own vehicle, he put his bag inside, and quaffed a mouth of water, and he diagonally shambled to the inspector, despite his voice was diminished by the concomitant snarl from the bonnet,‘Mr.Lambert! Mr. Lambert!’ The window was opened, when time ran under the passing traffic on the transient turnpike,‘Excuse me, Mr.Lambert.’

The inspector reversed the key. ‘I know you, I know you more than others, you are our inspector for today, and you have ever been on the program.’ As the key was retrieved, Zholdin rapidly shunned the pane,‘Furthermore, you have ever taught me in the Energy & Research Center.’ The air was cleared between them,‘Good evening.’

‘Yes. Good evening. It was several years ago, after the proposal of Neocum to buy up the project, I got my paid-holiday, and I took part in the seminar, you were introduced as the original inventor.’

‘I may remember.’

‘However, to be honest, I was little disappointed because I had expected to learn about F, the practical skill for the engineers, the necessary work for our hands, but your lecture utterly endured to speak about what the researchers were doing at the time, of course, it might have been the classified inforcxcvi

mation to the participants, but the pioneering project of the city development was, for me, impressed as even the shallow mockery, you explained to us, like this,“Let’s imagine the roulette-like object exists in our subject area, and this circular pattern has the sectors, such as 3 sections of 360 degree kept in each 120 degree phase angle that embodies the regional characteristic, and how we would like the place to be. As you may find that the neighbors tend to have mutual similitude of superiority as well as inferiority, hence firstly, we shall increase the pros, but the cons can be diluted to be gradually abated, by means of the goodness of the neighbors, the borrowed advantage can rectify a weakness each other, and the benefits are shared. Such process is practiced with this barometric device, the sector 1, slightly rotates to cover the area 2 from the area 1, consequently, the essence of the area 1 is mixed with the area 2, after all, the unceasing merry-go-round will be performed with our roulette, it ultimately eradicates all the cankers, in this way, we are able to procure the holistic paradise as the synchronized diversification, by the indigenous attraction of each local…”’

‘It was not by me. I suppose that my talk sufficed you with F.’ ‘Ah… that was the mystery out of my memory, sorry, I apologize for my mistake.’ cxcvii

‘No. I never mind.’

‘Wait, just let me please.’

‘Sure.’

‘How can I be with you?’

‘You mean, you will work for our R&D.’ ‘Yes, how can I do this?’

‘You have to pass the examination, it is conducted in January, and you must be apprenticed.’

‘What do you think? Does my bad leg affect the work?’

‘I suggest that you can be allocated to the test observation, and you will record the results, thousands of times for each project, as we have ever done for F. I hope to see you soon in our sector.’

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Chapter VII: FTM 3

The GFO annual assembly was summoned in the classical senate house, it was standing on the premise whose interminable dignity, the quiet mien of the cobble stones to have ever been stepped by the people toward their relentless fate since the bygone era, the majestic nobility was lastingly ordained without decrepitude.

The main entrance was secured by the fixed iron latch that was grasped by the engraved beasts, as if these were no longer to roar, the guards who were deployed to protect the meeting, maintained themselves in the icy winter, this location was where COCCY exchange building was the immediate vicinity.

In the beginning of 1993, the place was occupied by the camps, the newsmen had been set to report the substantial plenum since six in the morning, but they hadn’t yet been notified even the list of the attendances, utterly out of their expectation to get the exclusive that would be the heavy craving of the majority, as it was rumored that the quorum of GFO was se-

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riously absent, presumably, it was consisted of only the proxy members from each country.

At 2.00 pm in the tent, the espresso maker peeped through, and Quent with his disposable cup, reached it, his sleepless fatigue continued, but then,‘Mr.Perez got out from the intensive care, just half an hour ago.’ His assistant informed to his back.

‘Gracious to be heard.’ For the reason to protect his hot drink, though his voice was somewhat constrained, his sincere pleasure and comfort swaddled him, and it was the first time for him on the day to be aware that the bright tartan under his dark blown jacket would embellish the festivity for new year.

His career as the financial journalist had begun by mastering the conventional theory and methodologies of economics, the musty smell of old books had been his treasure. In his truthful mind, he had ever been impressed as President Perez would have been much for the National Reserve than his younger sister Etienne, who should have been the person of the partisan dominion, the private interview with her had frequently caused his hesitation, his ambition over the tips had been faltered, whenever the acute female had broken through however whatever the stumbling block had been, with her bona fide faith, her absolute polemic within the norm, and those had always led her to the stylish progression henceforth, she had never subjugated herself to the natural law of mathematcc

ics, regardless of its work as the mitigating buffer, she should have been genuinely the one for the ideology. However, he was conjuring up his inconsistent desire if she was in GFO at this time, thus the list that hadn’t yet been delivered, nurtured his meager wish to be stowed until then,‘The guards have opened the shield!’

There were five male delegates on the stony porch, they were as though the fastened columns that advocated the portico over them. ‘Is the quorum only the five?’

‘We are not familiar with you, we would like to be introduced.’

‘Has the assembly already finished, or it’s been only the intermittent? What is the agenda?’ The storming questions were all ignored by the aligned grimaces, but one of them came forward, and their exaggerated hand gestures were repetitively made that their palms covered their own lips, their fingers formed the crosses, finally the leading man’s bulky shoulders were once monumentally brandished to draw the identical signal for the emphatic negation.‘Excuse me, we can acknowledge… we have been warned for only a spurious taboo.’ When Quent flung his yell, they had already vanished into the colossal hulk.

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‘Is this for his fashionable outfit, he is very catchy?’

‘Quent?’

Nelson, who had been outpatient since the last Christmas mentioned to his son in the living room, he was watching the news about the recovered president, the reporter was taking note with his crew on the withdrawing camera. Branden abnegated his sight from the documents to purchase their new residence in the greener pastures abroad for the betterment of his father. Nevertheless Nelson’s arduous commitment to the second property that had already been processed in his luxurious hospital room, due to the minutiae, such as, hiring the private pilot for his commute, and the timing of their immigration, as the new land was going to be where was on the screen, which was sought after of yore, whether Rudo’s proposal for the prerogative could be successful within the medium term.

In fact, this winter holiday season was nothing special for him, as the senior board director of Fldora, his obligation had been the visits to the headquarter only several times in a month for the occasional gathering, in addition to the main meeting. However, the status of the company had been the vicissitudes of their growth since the public IPO, they had been able to overcome the technical issue, and the serial takeovers to have led the gigantic expansion ahead of the risk-free portfoccii

lio, albeit their physically operating incomes had been the persistent displays of negative figures as utilities, the revenues from the financial activities had yielded fortunes, the statements had been as the sovereign fiscal reports likewise that the preponderance of liabilities, but why the people’s incessant investments, the firm had been, as if they had bought the solemn pledge of civilization since the genesis of the monetary transaction to be the clear objective, and those days, comparing with the usual pattern, the advancement of the macro economy had been too fast to follow for the individual whose social position as the corporate executive, particularly because of the publication of the global portfolio just before the last autumn. The extensive dispersion had reduced the risk of each owner, hence it had made fortification between his collective role and private life. He had ever learnt from the international trade, the national immunity that had exactly meant the different personality of each land, thus the discretionary option had never been unjust, then, the countries had become similar status as the chief nation, but they had been outlandish, the demolishment of the independent capital variety, as the myriad of commercial papers had brought the carnivorous trend to the states, in order to purchase the shares of the portfolio, especially the equities of the two protagonists, Fldora and W’d Morale Venture Capitals, consequently, the losers had cciii

failed to fulfill the obligations on the massive debts within thirty days maturity, on the other hand, the victors, many of them had been the subsidiary banks of WDMM, they had absorbed the incapacitated monopolies. The winners had gained much power than the sovereigns and ultimately, they had distended their supremacy over the neighboring countries by the implied authority that had already been apprehended by everybody, as if the whole process had been linked in a vine, as if it had been the event that had ever been immaculately prepared by each country to get on the forthcoming waves.

Therefore, his son was able to accept the situation only by his unperturbed relinquishment, as soon as Nelson saw the five proxies in the latter part of the program,‘Is there anything that has been disbanded?’ Branden alerted his father by showing his palm to him as the men with their grimaces, but equally being taken as his amplification of the news, the phone rang, and his pensive father was left alone to mull over the top financial authority that was the coalesced state powers.

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The anniversary entertainment during the winter holiday was superseded by the scoop about GFO, but the public reaction was less eager, after prattling on it, they were sauntering avenues for their frolic shopping sprees under festoons.

However, for Zholdin, this cacophonous period was nothing, except for his new career in R&D, thus he had retreated from his job of this month, when the canteen had been with the shimmering ornamentation and special meals in the showcase. Since there had ever been no rest of utilities during the time of pomposity, the end might have been, for such employees rather relief, because it had been easier to work, this reticent attitude was staid of him.

In the latter of January, he was sitting for his paper to be promoted as the researcher, with the exam identification number, “1621� that was received after the long queue, but it was his discouragement, because his incentive should have been dedicated to only him though, the four digits exactly indicated the volume of the contestants, the cloakrooms were clumped, and those were in conflict with the sacred facility contained the glorious laboratories.

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utes, but the next section was quite evocative of W’d Morale Financial Fiesta, it had been two years before, the female pundit whose modish bravura had composed the legendary portfolio, “The potential for all the probabilities to be the half. The collaboration can be required with the R&D sector.” Her resonant analysis of human behavior and psychology,“How would we live toward the future?” Her real option had expeditiously elected the novel entrepreneurs with their fostered market deals, then, they had brought the casual span for everyone to be on the financial chess board, no risk of defeat, JUST BUY IT! The print on the new page was felt as much lustered, the quiz was to assess the inventive talent, it stimulated him.

“The amount of power usage is usually depended on the consumer activities, what they are doing as well as what they are going to do under the specified physical environment, such as the level of insulation. Our new project for the cost effective lighting has the function to censor the consumers, and it automatically controls the degree of usage. By this operation, the load profile can be regulated, and it determines the supplies that can be advantageous to maintain capital of our industry, particularly, in order to make forecasts. ccvi

Suggest the project detail of the cost effective lighting, with the theoretical idea of its mechanism, how it can be produced?� “1621:Introduction: The development of utilities has ever hugely contributed to the evolution of our lives, and technical improvement that has been bestowed to our civilization, has played the major roles for both physical and mental reform, in fact, our stability is determined by our senses, in order to obtain our progress and optimistic circumstances, we are always with our conscious and will to advance. From this macro analysis of human behavior and in terms of the sensory functions to be on the degree day, I would like to refer to the fundamental structure of the classical equipment, a polygraph that has been still underestimated, with the applied science of F, as I suppose that continuity is the imperative criteria of our research and invention for the achievement.

The polygraph and the cost effective lighting: The essential logic of the polygraph is appeared as the perception of human pulse in flux, in other words, as the pulse embodies the physical circulation that is considerably influenced by the emotional status, it can be substituted by the electric signal of the neuron from the brain, as this also shares the aspect of the wave function. Since all the electric signals are converted to ccvii

the binary expressions, such as, 1 (false) 0 (true) on the configuration monitor, there has already been no necessity to rely on the old indicator that used to make the direct record about the internal fluctuation.

Without saying that the false or true statement is, in the case of our new project, applied to discern the consumer behavior, under the specified physical and mental status, whether the one is requiring the higher usage. To be certain, my binary logic behind the theory above, which is by means of decoding the synaptic potentials, but limited to the discussion on the deceptive mind is that our speech is, basically defined as the positive + action, being ranged with the time vector towards the future, as it is, the decay that is described as -, this contradictory can be objectively comprehended with the exemplification of the voice-echo. Consequently, if the thing is true, the two vectors go in the opposite direction, and these make balanced zero, but if the one is telling a lie, the result shows the contrived positive sign, because there is going to be no such realistic time that would come in the mind of the false confessor, hence it is surmised as [t||u] =0, if and only if t=u.5 The applied science of F to the polygraph: As the linkage to the cost effective lighting, the irradiation of the phosphorescent light for the generation process of F is effective, regarding

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the fact that it is the source of electricity, it induces the electromagnetic power.

To be applied to the polygraph, the actual method is, the speaker is shone during the communication, since the safety test of the light has already been proved with F, there can be no problem at all. However, the difference from the existing F is that the emitted power should have the opposite particle to the neuronal particle, in order to induce it beyond the corporeal boarder and to capture it, which is transmitted to the configuration machine as if the dendrite that is the receptor set in the electrical equipment, additionally the receptor is ideal if it is made of a semiconducting material.

Finally, the sensory function is the crucial primacy of this project, with the further detailed analysis of the receptor, the ethical issue is also discussed in the next section of this paper.

The preservation of the mind and the ethical justification: The mind is, then considered as the energy, hence, if it is transformed the existing condition to either a liquid or a solid, or even to a gaseous state, the cryogenic refrigerator works for the preservation. The receptor is connected to the freezer, and the ejector set in some part of it to dispense the ice cube that contains the energy captured from the speaker, it is the analogous device as a vending machine to provide us with the ccix

icy gem, this idea is worthy for the extensive examination of the binary result even without the subject in place.

On the other hand, for the cost effective lighting, it has the potential that is developed into the automated control system accessed to the human mind and desire, including the statistical data project, if the equipment has the function to input the outside climate with the inside temperature, moreover the required usage pattern under the consumer motive, whether it is switched off, or the level is altered.

The system of the sensor is compared with the voice recognition and visual presentation of the modern polygraph, yet for the cost effective lighting, the result is always with the simplified twofold disclosure, on or off (0,1), up or down (0,1) the total usage along with the external factors is the outcome of this new system, besides, the communication is implemented within the users and electrical equipment, so that the provider knows only the described figures that are going to be solved by the formulaic tactics.

Additional comment on the system: The simplified twofold disclosure, on or off (0,1) up or down (0,1) these representations involve the idea of the binary reaction of the polygraph,‘off’ is configured as ‘false’ that the speaker is telling a lie, or in other words, the consumer is telling a lie, regardless ccx

of the programmed status that is going to make consumption of the electricity. The theorem of this binary description is supposed beyond the scope of this paper, and there has yet been difficulty to be tackled, thus it is the most of my interest in this project, and it can be our testing henceforth, because of the lighting as the key source in the enclosed space.�

He put the pen, and discovered that he could earn the remaining fifteen minutes until his lunch break.

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The adjoined library was permitted for the public use, Zholdin spent the time there until he was called to enter the office room where the three interviewers evaluated each candidate, ‘As you have already worked for our operation, if you are with us, how long does it take to change your sector, we hope it to be within half a month, as you haven’t yet done, can you do this?’

‘My pleasure, I will visit the admin on Monday, and for one week is my instant perspective.’

‘Whether the idiosyncratic aspect of your writing is only because of your immaturity…’ Since the one mentioned this in his full smile, he was not embarrassed,‘Is there any problem for the sector, because of my bad leg?’

‘Your job can be firstly the observations of our experiments and reports to the higher labs.’

Another interlocutor was jolted in,‘Mr.Sigfred, I work for the prefatory stage, and it is dominantly on a desk, can I question you about your submission, today?’

‘Yes.’ ‘As I expose my agnostic attitude on a polygraph because of my hypothesis, the information from the confessor is surely

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what is going to be. Give me your opinion on my suspicion that it is impossible to tell a lie?’

‘Our whiff commits derailment from the absolute fact that is going to be, it is the perversion, and the main path can’t be but a tangent with the precise route, if it is once distracted. The machine exists for the justified progress, and this is the law of our lives.’

‘Can we find or be acknowledged which one is our real passage? Can you please define it for me?’

‘Albeit I have learnt that our compliance with the Insider Act is the rigid condition to be the researcher, for my response impromptu, the theory of finance is applied to here, after the trough, there is the ceiling, it is the absolute destiny for our sustenance. The real path is that the ceiling comes after the trough.’ The two interviewers burst into laugh, but the one was in his serious demeanor to say, ‘Indeed. Then, my next query is about your ethics on the paper, and as you have known that the leak of information is prohibited under the law, in this view, the twofold binary disclosure is enough to tell if the consumer is at home, as well as how the level of activities at the time are, eventually, the usage pattern would reveal the financial status, wouldn’t they?’

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‘It depends on being known by whom, this is what I would like to emphasize, I hope that the binary information wouldn’t exchange the consumers’ safety because of our indulgence in technological convenience. And, it is difficult for me to assume how the electrical usage would leak financial privacy. Only God knows how much we have, this is enough.’

‘So am I.’ The one laughed in his first time, and continued, ‘Our project is always begun like this, do you like it? If I can be with you in the future, I would be grateful. Your paper has fulfilled our mode, and it is definitely by your own gift.’

‘I appreciate.’ At this moment, the ice was broken to accept the fair status, Zholdin as their colleague.

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His succulent rendition with the guaranteed result, Zholdin was the happiest person among the passers-by, even when he was on his wheels, but it was about to be accelerated, despite the interception by the traffic signal, he turned up the radio to return to his normal concentration.

The financial news was atypical bickering between the commentators,‘During hyperinflation, the commodity prices increase, and it also indicates the people’s upward sense of value for both money and goods, unless we get tired of finance.’

‘Your opinion is too abstract to define the topic, but it is much shocking to claim, if ontology of Fldora has been only our hallucination, which means, we have carried our sand next to next to their hegemony, of course, the castle has been extended, incessantly.’

‘It hasn’t yet been the time to bite the uncertain gossip, it can be the egalitarian mirage of our recognition itself.’

‘However, it is a bet on our survival, to what extent would it influence, if…’

‘Kurtis, I say, it’s not the time to be bewildered…’

‘Here is the recent interview with Rudo on my TV program, when he spoke about his own establishment and recent social

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conditions, our mirage has been stemmed from it as our symptom.’

The car got into the suburban area, the dulcet voice that everybody adored was on the side speaker,“I began with my inherited assets, interestingly, those had ever been their capital at one time, which had been regarded as no value during the upheaval of imbroglio, when the people had experienced barter, and my patrimony was exactly the shares of the corporations under their former government.

When I recognized about my lineage, I dithered over whether my ancestral power could have enough rewarded to the people, it was not only because that the infinite value had already been recovered since the value of naught, but also, the essence of their barter had contained the fundamental rule of exchange.”

‘Firstly, this was taken as his retirement, and we said that the new CEO would be Branden, who had been the owner of the private firm, but in this time, Fldora, plc.’

‘However, indeed, Fldora has been no longer necessary to be organized as a corporation, and nowadays, Rudo has frequently sent him to Sanchez.’

‘It’s a paradox, the entity that is not deemed as a business can’t be acquired, or…’ ccxvi

For a moment, the horrible sensation as a quake, Zholdin was seized everything what he had been doing, he escaped from the automobile, and had to undergo the destroyed bumper and miserable blinker against the pedestrian railing, he made pivot to the public phone, avoiding the dispersed debris of headlights,“Driver’s Rescue” in his grip, without his bandy leg.

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Chapter VIII: FTM 4

It was a leaden day, occasionally in the disguised humidity to be the drizzling afternoon, Kurtis spent for strolling the park in the suburban area, though the scrubby woods and foliage were accessed to the forest for hunters, the open field was always vivacious with the families, and he assured that they could be the grain of journalists, rather than the empty office, but the population of the country had been reduced in half since the previous year. As if the phantasmagoric elixir, Fldora had emancipated society from all the malaise of capital, peace and permanence, the playground was the halcyon sentiment, nevertheless, he was the lucky person without his melancholy between the amber glimmers amid the leaves, and the artificial spotlight in his studio.

His wrist watch showed 3.00 pm, the time for his appointment, he returned to the parked car on the edge of the road where the geometric terrace made of unified bricks muffled his talk on the phone,‘This is Kurtis.’ ccxviii

‘What would you like to know?’

‘I am from Quent, who is the financial journalist, he said that albeit he had attempted the scoop about the acquisition between W’d Morale and Fldora, they had strongly rejected the rumor, because their R&D had earned behemoth opportune that had been recently funded, then his work had just been finished.’

‘You have spoken too much, I am Pavel, Pavel Ebner, I am the chief of the first division, but I often supervise several of our projects till the end, am I a correct person?’

‘Certainly.’

‘Our new project is called,“Cost Effective Lighting”and it can be brought up to be the free-electricity under the perfect automation. The central idea is based on the formulation of usage with the defined consumer behavior, and for our precaution on the ethical issue, everything has to be done by themselves.’

‘The cost–free electricity has been frequently mentioned by Mr.Bongway.’

‘Yes, we have been for it. Perhaps, the headquarter will consent to my press association, so that I can receive the permission as soon as possible, and the technical details will be dispatched to you.’

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‘Can’t we talk on my program?’

‘I don’t have time for it, since there have been the insurmountable glitches.’

‘When will you be free?’

‘After one month or a few months.’

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Pavel fixed the receiver, and it whined meekly, the air conditioner in his office was idle thus no noise, the rays from the outside were aggravating the temperature, and he quickly left there.

‘Then, it’s been like this, and I will power it off and on, see, again, like this.’ The grumble of the experimenter on the microphone was perceivable in the hallway. As soon as he entered the auditorium that was the lofted space like the aeronautical test field,‘How has it been going?’ He gave the innocent address to the guy in his wrong leg, who was reclining onto the door.

‘We haven’t yet been able to proceed, no, it’s been utterly out of our condition.’ Marcelo answered from the observatory to whom was staggered, but he got back to him,‘These sample polygraph machines are amounted to more than fifty, and the flaw has been happening to only this, for our next stage, there’s been no reason that we have to be in abeyance, we should go ahead for the cost effective lighting with the potential to efface the blip, the problem on the supplemental equipment is negligible.’

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‘Yes, you correct, but strangely enough, the defect has emerged just after the inspection.’ For the spell of their dumbness, one of the researchers was suddenly alarmed, a ripple of panic ensued, Zholdin sidled to the displays, some of them were crashed in jet black, and others were spewing out the uncanny binary strings that were automatically appeared in lasting lengths, those were as though a bout of an epidemic, infecting the configurators.

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In the evening on the day, the inspection team led by Marcelo was drafted into the technical engineering or project revision, the latter members were shut in the conference hall, including Zholdin. Marcelo contended,‘I suggest, within the purview of the project structure itself, there should have been no need to be sectioned in two parts, we won’t actually release the polygraph, it should have been subsumed under one project.’

‘However, the receptor that works as the central function of the lighting should be prioritized, because it is the fundamental device, it’s been not the marginal stage for the second machine. I mean that the first solution is of the polygraph to be with the subject whose motion is almost inertia except his mouth and brain. For the reason that the strain would be tensed, if it involves the movements, due to the incursion of static, the will occurs before the one turns on the equipment, thus, if the physical contact is executed within the short duration, the system is difficult to distinguish between the neuronal charge that is going to jiggle, and the regular existence of static that is going to fluctuate in a minute with the action as well.

As you know that our artificial dendrite resembles the transformer of the electricity, and the magnetic circulation is controlled by a spool of aluminum coils, yet thankfully, it has alccxxiii

ready been done to avoid the misconception because of the superfluity, the strong energy can’t go through, as it is pushed out by the designated filter function, the receptor is precisely made of the micro-sponge-structure, hence, the larger voltage is hooked up and bounced out of it, consequently, our hitch has been only with static, it would be the unbeatable absconder.’

Pavel’s defense was once approved by Marcelo,‘Sure, but, I have further suspicion on the perceptive capacity itself, all right, let’s limit the investigation to the polygraph, anyway, suppose that there is no one as the subject, how is the naked range of it?’

‘It is estimated roughly, 0.5 square miles.’

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The timing was selected at 3.00 am, in order not to disturb the public, the neighboring terminal nodes were suspended for one minute, by means of the circuit breakers, the communication was fully made with the plant throughout the distribution, and everything elapsed so rapidly under the stark night, slinging darkness, the anachronistic mobile generator for the trial was placed.

‘On!’ ‘False.’

‘On!’ ‘False.’ On, false, on, false… ‘Is this binary string completely random?’

‘What did you say?’

‘It sometimes exhibits 1000001, 1000001.’

‘Let’s go out, let us out, you shall stay alone in this room for the rest of seconds, and give us the snapshots of the screen, quick, quick.’

1000001, 1000001, 1000001, 1000001…‘That’s great!’ A flash, a flash, a flash, correspondingly, luminosity was flipped, when Zholdin took the final shot, the blind air opened his eyes.

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How long had it been gone by since the first artificial light had shone over after the sun, and if it was lost, would it be the chance for a lie to be true?

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On the next day, Zholdin was given a day off, and he took rest in his apartment, the accustomed place under the blame from nobody, the private residence was admitted during the apprenticeship, moreover, no one had ever reproached him, because of the initial idea on his paper, the theoretical lemma that had been deftly followed by the team. It was the time when he was about to sleep at 9.00 am, he put the tattered book to the shelve that he had borrowed from the library, the history of code technology was confided in it.

Above all, the first-aid for the arcane binary had been isolated to be tackled only by the senior specialists, if there would have been the embedded program or message in it, as cryptography had been apparently the prohibited area of study since “the upheaval” it had ever been on the radio, or rather the realm of science that had been forgotten or disappeared, so that Zholdin would stick to his dreary work on the next day, he would monitor the safety results for those products that had already been released or pending for patents, and he would commute there by bus, the congested public transport, but it would be much better, he had felt since then, more than for three hours,“Driver’s Rescue” hadn’t arrived, finally, his tantrum had had recourse to the junkyard.

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night, was on the TV,‘There is no more reason for us to reject Venture Capitals takeover.’

‘The reality that the cosmological price is in hand for the most beloved corporation, this is the evidence of our precision to be all for our shareholders.’ Sanchez was zoomed up, and the camera was turned to VOLU trade floor, the price boards were as the spurred stopwatch as ever, the dealers were handling the task via the state of the art high-speed modems, ‘They have already achieved more than 60% plus.’ Quent was feverish.

Zholdin hurriedly pulled the denim trousers, then, his limp dashed out to the bus station.

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Lilting grins in the city before noon, whereas Zholdin was demarcated from the ethereal elation of the mass, in his stony face, despite of his shares that were also surging. The apathetic mood was ubiquitous, but on his arrival, he scampered into Pavel,‘Excuse me, has our project been abolished?’

‘Why do you think so?’

‘Mr.Bongway made comment in this morning.’

‘Our work has been in progress, but we had to report to the headquarter that it would take for several years.’ Zholdin heaved a relief, and he curtly shrugged his shoulders,‘I apologize for my impulsive visit.’

‘No, you are not at all impulsive, you are correct to come here, but we were curbed to call on you, because you may have been fatigued since last night.’

‘Has there been anything?’

‘Marcelo left our place.’

‘Why?’ ‘Because the black-out was conducted on his own responsibility, as he appointed himself to be accountable for the external involvement.’

‘The experiment was finished without trouble...’

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‘You may know as you were the operator, the system of the electricity under the safety law, requires the black-out capability within thirty seconds, but we took for one minute.’

‘He got permission for it, thus we could do it.’

‘For the reason of urgent necessity, regardless, it was reprimanded later, as inadequate to be determined as urgent, but anyway, it had been done for the sake of him, for his exceptional background. He told us that the urgent experiment for the project was his final work, although his resignation might have been he had ever been looking for the time, but the inventive profession had been too enticing to be separated from his life.’

‘We miss the significant person.’

‘He is deservedly the one of F, but we have to accept.’

In the afternoon on the day, when he was behind the door of his room, the bell pushed his clumsy pace to achieve the phone,‘Hello… Yes, I am… Yes… I know you, I listen to your radio... Yes, that’s mine… but I am in apprenticeship… I will finish after 5.00 pm, but I may need the approval to meet with you… Marcelo… from him? Ah… astonishing…’

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Chapter IX: FTM 5

The product in the vivarium, monotonously underwent the experimental criteria in the reduced section from the main test field, Zholdin didn’t recognize even what the object would be, but it was only his duty to observe whenever it passed through under the extreme heat, he scratched a tick on the blank, and he perceived somebody coming there, who was from the administration to tell them,‘Can you please be away what you are doing, right? We have to be in the hall.’

The employees were packed in the place, and there was the TV monitor onstage, September, 1993, they were caught in their mouths agape, it was the equivocal moment neither the beginning nor the end. The wide screen displayed the price billboards in VOLU, and everyone witnessed that “FLDO” “FLDOEQ” “WDMO” “WDMM” the eponymous tickers were rolling down from the peaks as though the earth was per se crumbling into the rocks, and they were severely vying each other

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for the fastest slump beyond nothing, the trade floor was barely the void.

‘This accident may influence your private lives, we have to close our work for today by 3.00 pm.’ Zholdin vamoosed there in the swiftest opportunity. The bus carried him through the avenue, there was a stack of people, who shoved around the hoarding, and he popped out on it,‘The horrible extravagance, it can be incised in our market history, falling from the sun, have you ever tried it? Yes, you are maddened for doing it now. Today at noon, you dumped your trade, you are no longer with them, are you joking?’ Rumbling Quent.

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The fine grey rayon was for the flimsy evening that would be occasionally chilly, when Zholdin arrived at VOLU, there was only a little possibility for him to wade through the jumbling mass to the security guards, he was ushered to the elevator on the ground floor where was contrastingly pious, the alabaster sculptures were as if in a doze at each corner of the glossy carpet that made the tidy trail towards the courteous slide swished to the higher floor, and the starry specks from the glass shield grafted onto his velvety shirt.

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(At 18.21, September, 1993)

‘Good evening, are you the one for…?’

‘Mr.Kurtis.’

‘He is exactly the one for us, Sir, what shall we get you, any drink or a cigar for the first? ’ ‘I can’t be so fuddled, but I may enjoy here.’

‘Vermouth on the rock with a carafe, everyone loves it.’

‘Great to meet with you, Mr.Sigfred?’

‘Are you…?’

‘Yes, I am.’

‘Was he…’

‘He said that there could be nothing more what he would obtain from you. These days, this has been his annoying habit, as soon as the thing is changed, the ones from his list are erased for the next, that’s the way that he does for our days, but I sneaked him, and asked,“What is he? I will.” Would you mind my delay? Sorry, because we have been falling from the sun.

Excuse me, can I have this, and he may need another?’

‘Did Marcelo give him my paper?’

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‘I don’t know.’

‘I am ashamed as it is cursory.’

‘They have been getting along each other since the first interview.

Oh, this is what I like, vermouth, as for this spicy bouquet...

After he left the job, he met with him, and he said,“Science leads veritable technology that produces thousands of millions of uniform shapes and functions, in this case, the contortion indicates our inferiority, until what is called our development.

The power must be composed of accumulated duplications, it’s been my fancy since the dawn of my profession as the patent officer, the equivalent figures represent stability.”’

‘The equal existence is culminated in one mortal weakness.’

‘Nobody kills the products.’

‘I hope so. And I will be baffled to see them, if they don’t have any personality, no, ah… that’s been my deviation, I should rather say, if they have never been upgraded at all, as if time hasn’t elapsed at all. However, if we have already lived in the future, as though time has been dormant, it’s been always the same, but my hours have been in transit since the afternoon, and I have been condemned to haggle over it, in this

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view, Marcelo is correct. Or sorry, if you are the guy who has escaped from your toil.’

‘It utterly depends on… and I just don’t take up what I don’t want to, while I am with this vermouth. I can follow you for the benefit of this chalice. Would you like some dish?’

‘Hors d’oeuvre of cheese is good for our taste with the bottle, but it’s already passed the denouement as for the pungency, hasn’t it?’

‘Did you abolish your trade at noon?’

‘No. I was in the sector to put ticks on the report, and those’ve been always obsequious except my fingers that do wrong.’

‘Does the life bore you?’

‘No.’ ‘The bottle let us go senile, going mad, it can be much tasty than cheese, with a hint of fragrance.’

‘The sense doesn’t wreak insanity.’

‘I will serve, and we will crack ice by ourselves for the one that’s been corked. You see this, the pulp absorbs our mind.’

‘I appreciate. My grace is, now, absorbed into it.’

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‘This is exactly what he received from Marcelo. You can watch it.’

‘This has been nothing to get me upset. Every place in our sector is monitored under the surveillance camera, it’s been within our common sense.’

‘Is this you?’

‘Yes, I am, during the blackout, I told my boss what I had found on the default screen, as a result, I was left alone.’

‘This! I’ll reverse it back to then, you know, you mentioned something to your boss at the time.’

‘I asked him if it had been random.’

‘Because of 1000001 on the screen, and you were sorely in the place, then 1000001, 1000001… you began the snapshots.’

‘What are you talking about?’

‘Marcelo discovered the peculiar regularity that 1000001 had always come up approximately two seconds before, whenever you had been going to react, and you had actually reacted, you had pronounced the words, you had rustled yourself to be ready for the shots.’

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‘Whether you like this videotape or not, as long as I am here on behalf of my mate, you should keep it. And if you prefer my duty to replenish you, this can be the tip from me to ask you, what is your fortune for?’ ‘…’

‘It’s going to be a petty craft.

Do you need a cab?’

‘If there is. Z will return to A, but “a” indicates nonexistence, too. How can I return “without” “a” cab?’

‘There has been a cab until midnight.

It has been only the gleaming index that has been persistently computing up or down, but the light itself is not defined as one countable existence, stay in your mind.’

‘I would have been able to do so, if there had been no alcohol.

Can you see my leg? I have been destined to love my work, to sit for the electricity. See you, as I will watch you, Quent!’

‘Perhaps. And you penchant for my memorabilia with the videotape that clings to you.’

‘Excuse me, Sir, may I see your vehicle?’

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‘It will be there for a few minutes. Can I get a beverage somewhere on this floor?’

‘I will bring it for a minute, Sir.’

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The brisk zephyr temporally restored him, when he was on the exit, the clouds over the night sky were floating along the sphere to promise the next morning.

Zholdin directed the driver to alter the destination to his old working place where could be still valid to enter, he would alleviate alcohol in the nostalgic site with his former colleagues, and the car got him out in front of the radiant gate, after a short consolation, unexpectedly, there was no one in the entry booth, yet the conspicuous bulbs, hence, his hand trespassed through the cubbyhole, he pressed the access. However, only the pellucid enclosure permitted him to observe inside that was also unoccupied, and the evocative operation machines whose screens were alone to execute, 1, 0, -1, 0‌ The portal was again, pattered behind, he fixed his overcoat to warm his body in throbbing dizziness, whether the cost-free electricity had already been distributed.

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The day broke. Zholdin was at the intersection of turnpikes, a sore throat and nauseous shivers that endangered the bottom of his stomach, obviously, he had made mistake by his drunken scalp. On the distant highway, the passing automobiles were only a few, as if they would vanish into the different goals faraway from where he was, the cadence of the wanly asphalt hid their destinations. Despite the sun was about to escalate, the abandoned transparency was merely unearthly, he was imposed the sunken lane to squelch through, in fact, he had been beguiled by his intoxicated impulse, then, the videotape had become heavier and heavier, but he had been bound to interrogate his father at home,“Have you ever told somebody about the river?”

The dawn was acrid, cicadas accelerated the pitch of their shrieks, the chaotic pandemonium in September, the empty bottle was trundled down from his pocket. It took nearly for one hour to reach the rusty vending machine that was almost all “Sold Out” except the aged label of sparkling water. He rummaged around for dollars, and it was when he gave up all of his hope, he was haunted by the lure of the guy a night before, his clear resonant ditty, his beam in his wavy hair that had been sometimes swayed, Zholdin sat on the nearest bollard, scissors and a notebook from his briefcase, he whittled the sheet into the rectangle, and his black marker drew “$2”. At the moccxli

ment, did he dye the sky with his pen? The growling murky clouds sheltered allover, a roaring thunderstorm induced the pelting shower, he was soaked from head to heel, as if he himself was a sprinkler. ‘Shit!’ The melting pulp was fragmented into a smudge on the road, and the cicadas were hushed, the twinkling flare was visible. He trudged to the machine, in order to press the button, the clatter of the bottle fell onto the slot, he turned the lid to slake, yet the fizzy froth was poured out, until it exposed the vain clink.‘Shit!’ He was getting back where he had come from without his bandy-leg.

(END) March 2016, completed in Bucharest.

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( Profile / Sachiko Tamaki )

May 1975 - Born in Japan.

September 2011- Stay in Kent, England.

February 2013-March 2013: During the online course for the short stories,the first drafts of ‘Heaven’s Breath’, ‘Riddle of the Lake’ completed.

November 2013: After the first draft ‘Daisy’, the research for ‘Canopy Of Azure’ began, the idea of the story gradually formed.

November 2013: ‘Academic Essays’/ Sachiko Tamaki, published online.

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December 2013 - Stay in Bedfordshire, England, the research for ‘!?’ began, the idea of the story gradually formed.

February 2014 - Travel to Switzerland, stay in Geneva and Zürich.

Spring 2014: ‘The Short Stories’ / Sachiko Tamaki, published online.

May 2014 - Travel to USA. The reference & material note, production note for ‘Canopy Of Azure’ completed in Washington D.C and Maryland.

July 2014 - ‘Canopy Of Azure’, the plot outline completed in San Jose, California, the first draft began.

Stay for one week in San Francisco.

August 2014 - Travel to Argentina, stay in Buenos Aires.

The reference & bibliography note for ‘!?’ completed.

September 2014: ‘Canopy Of Azure’ / Sachiko Tamaki,

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published online.

October 2014: The production & material note for ‘!?’ completed.

November 2014: The plot outline of ‘!?’ completed.

The research for ‘The Short Stories 2’ began.

November 2014 - Travel to USA, stay in Los Angeles, California.

December 2014: The first draft of ‘!?’ completed.

The plot idea for ‘The Short Stories 2’ gradually formed.

December 2014: ‘!?’/ Sachiko Tamaki, published online.

January 2015 - Travel to Texas, stay in Huston.

The research for ‘The Short Stories 2’ continued.

February 2015 - Travel to Switzerland, stay in Zürich.

March 2015: The production & material note, the bibliography,

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and the plot outline for ‘The Short Stories 2’ completed.

April 2015: The first draft of ‘The Short Stories 2’ completed.

‘The Short Stories 2’ / Sachiko Tamaki, published online.

‘Precipice’ research began, the idea of the story gradually formed.

May 2015- Stay in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. ‘Precipice’ research continued.

June 2015- After staying for a few days in Los Angeles, California, USA, temporal return to Japan.

August 2015- Travel to Serbia, stay in Belgrade. ‘Precipice’ research restarted.

September 2015- Travel to Russia, stay in Moscow.

‘Precipice’ research continued.

The end of September 2015- Stay in Bridgeport, West Virginia, USA. The production & material note for ‘Precipice’ completed in

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the earlier of October, 2015, the plot outline of ‘Precipice’ began.

The end of November 2015- Stay in New York, USA. The second research for ‘Precipice’ began, the plot outline of ‘Precipice’ continued.

The end of November 2015- Stay in Los Angeles, California, USA, the second research and plot outline for ‘Precipice’ continued.

December 2015: The plot outline of ‘Precipice’ completed.

December 2015- Travel to Germany, stay in Frankfurt.

The second research continued.

The first draft of ‘Precipice’ began, the first draft of ‘Precipice, Book II’ completed.

January 2016: The first draft of ‘Precipice, Book III’ completed.

January 2016 - Stay in München, Germany. The second research

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and completion of ‘Precipice Book II, Book III’ continued.

February 2016- Travel to Austria, stay in Vienna.

The completion of ‘Precipice Book II, Book III’ finished.

March 2016- Travel to Romania, stay in Bucharest.

The first draft of ‘Precipice, Book I’ began.

The second research and completion for ‘Precipice’ continued.

March 2016: The first draft and completion of ‘Precipice, Book I’ finished, the second research for ‘Precipice’ finished. ‘Precipice’ /Sachiko Tamaki completed, and processed to be published online.

April 2016- Stay in Alba lulia in Romania.

‘Precipice’ /Sachiko Tamaki, published online.

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(Publishing) *‘Academic Essays’/ Sachiko Tamaki (2013) *‘The Short Stories’ / Sachiko Tamaki (2014) ‘Heaven’s Breath’ ‘Riddle of the Lake’ ‘Daisy’ *‘Canopy Of Azure’ / Sachiko Tamaki (2014) *‘!?’/ Sachiko Tamaki (2014) *‘The Short Stories 2’ / Sachiko Tamaki (2015) ‘The Village’ ‘The Fossil’ ‘∞’ *‘Precipice’ / Sachiko Tamaki (2016)

Sachiko.T’s room in Frankfurt, Germany (Winter, 2015 - 2016)

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