Beautiful writing but please: can the origin author just get off their baroque coruscated, highly gilt and filial-decorated chair and say out loud: ITS BEEN BOUGHT FOR THE MARGINAL ADVANTAGE IN SPEED TO DO TRADES.

It has line-of-sight advantage to link the markets in London and Europe. Thats why it's valuable.

My god, this is like reading Proust. 3000 pages to say "baron charlus was offensive and bloch suffered antisemitism"

Some people need an editor