The price that names its maker
A price is not a number. It is an act, and only the owner is entitled to perform it, so the day one piece of a shared field gets one, the field stops being shared and becomes work with a
The longer component sets the direction
A cost arrives with several components at once and only one of them has a currency in front of it. Direction comes off the whole vector, the countable component is a reading and not a direction, and for years I
What never enters the ledger is never weighed
A ledger asks for three things and a figure is not one of them. Nearly every cost I failed to charge for stayed outside the book because I thought a cost had to be scoped before it could carry a
Price at the edge
Price is a number attached at the edge of a thing. People who treat the number as the whole measurement throw away the axis it sits on, the direction that axis runs, and the market the number was actually set