OFFICE OF THE RECORDS — PATTERN FILE
PATTERN 25-26
ACTIVEINNOCENCE resolving to GREAT TAMING. Filed under: the overlooked hostage, the kingdom's price, danger first then joy.
INDEX ENTRY — ON FILE BEFORE EVERY INCIDENT BELOW
延頸望酒，不入我口。商人勞苦，利得無有。夏臺羑里，雖危復喜。
Craning for wine that never reaches the mouth; the merchant toils for nothing — yet Xia Tower and Youli: danger first, joy after.
published fragment: Jiaoshi Yilin, c. 40 BC — the entry predates all surviving copies
LOGGED OCCURRENCES
- 11TH C. BCKing Wen in the prison at Youli
King Wen in the prison at Youli — the most undervalued holding in the record. Filed under the pattern's earlier run.
- c. 260 BCThe Rare Good
Merchant Lü Buwei, assessing the Handan market, passed the jade and the silks and priced a hostage: a neglected Qin prince. Colleagues quoted grain margins; subject asked the margin on a kingdom. Filed as ENTRY 017/64.
- 1901THE HOARD THAT WAS PRICED BEFORE THE MARKET KNEW
Oracle bones from the fields near Anyang were still sold as dragon-bone medicine by the hundredweight. Wang Yirong, the scholar who had recognized the Shang script on them in 1899, was dead — he had taken his own life when the capital fell the summer before. His collection passed to the novelist Liu E, who kept buying what the apothecaries priced by weight. A kingdom's memory traded at the price of medicine for two more years before the first rubbings were published.
- 1980THE BROTHERS WHO TRIED TO CORNER SILVER
Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt attempted to corner the global silver market. They accumulated futures and bullion. The market followed. The Comex changed its margin rules. The queue of sellers assembled before the brothers reached the door.
Cited by card ENTRY 017/64 · The Rare Good — The Records, Deck 1.
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