One Word
The statement took me four hours Tuesday evening and one rewrite Wednesday morning at five AM. Not because the facts were difficult — I had everything, sourced and ordered and clean. Not because the tone was elusive. Because one sentence kept being wrong and I couldn’t work out why until the fifth draft, when I finally saw it. Voss Enterprises has identified a coordinated campaign by Marcus Webb and associated parties to infiltrate our deal flow through a series of deliberately obscured ownership structures. Infiltrate. The word was accurate. It was precise. It was also, I realised at five AM, the word of a firm that felt threatened. And Lucian Voss had never, in twenty-five days, given anyone the satisfaction of looking threatened. I changed it to undermine. Then I went back to slee
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