Documentation from the deal. Photography and illustration from the world of phantom gold, forwarded messages, and 2,500 donkeys walking through the desert.
2,500 donkeys. Gold bars in saddlebags. A narrow green corridor through the desert.
Walking until the certificate says they stopped.
Unbothered. Dignified. Loaded with what might be gold.
“653 donkeys don’t arrive. The certificate says they all did.”Block 05c — Attrition
Parking lots. Dark suits. Papers exchanged beside running engines.
Where belief travels faster than verification.
The deal doesn't need an office. It needs proximity and plausibility.
Forwarded messages. IMF alignment confirmations. Documentation that proves everything and nothing.
Dear Sir, this is to confirm that the IMF alignment and sovereign stabilization terms have been ratified as specified.
Kindly revert with any outstanding items.
Stacked. Photographed. Allegedly verified. The product that is optional.
The photo proves the gold exists. The photo was forwarded nine times.
One bar. One spreadsheet. Infinite commissions.
Saddlebags in the sand. Attrition is just logistics.
Dashboards. Presentations. The architecture of plausibility.
Metrics for a product that hasn't moved.
Someone was here. The equipment remembers.
Black and white pencil illustrations. One per arc.
The origin point. Before the deals, before the donkeys.
Where belief travels faster than verification.
Documentation that proves everything and nothing.
The broker chain. Messages forwarded until origin dissolves.
2,500 of them. Walking across a desert. Allegedly.
When narrative becomes infrastructure.
ESG theater and the monetization of good intentions.
What happens when verification finally catches up.
The chain is intact. The provenance holds.
“The gold was optional. The donkeys were optional. The only non-optional element was the narrative.”Epilogue