Q-bists like Mr. Morris got recent inspiration from a niche corner of online life.

Financial Twitter.

Fintwit, as it is called, typically consists of investors small and large debating the

direction of markets, the prospects for inflation, and recipes for grilled meats.

Lately, photos of smoked brisket have given away to pictures of cubes.

There's only so much meat you can smoke before you go.

What am I doing?

This is hollow.

There's how much can I pay?

How much money can I pay in a fucking fake wagyu?

And then your mystification is lifted when you realize, oh, I could be carrying about

cubes.

Something that has a real value.

That's what happened.

Something that's really meaningful.

That's what happened.

So when it was like, your life is totally hollow.

And then one of these guys was like, what's the opposite of hollow?

Dense.

Dense.

Dense is the thing I could buy.

He said, there's a really good quote about that later in the piece.

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