if you were buying futures how would you know the physical goods that they represented were there to be claimed maybe production could fail or a vendor might sell the future of the same lot to multiple buyers in reality such things seem not to occur since this would badly corrode confidence in the selling company but if it did the easiest way for duped buyers to cope would be to sell on the futures before prices collapsed distributing the loss further and further from the producer in a pyramid scheme beholding a pyramid it’s difficult to take in the whole edifice because one’s so occupied scanning the individual tiers of stone even harder when one’s entombed inside brain pulled out through the nose and preserved in a canopic jar to dream of the sublime how will you apprehend this pyramid’s meaning

• look at it from a great distance
• find out who’s beneath it