It argues, correctly, that no contract can be traced to any improper act.

It argues that the language was puffery, that puffery is ubiquitous, and that a marketing document is not a representation.

It contains a paragraph about the eleven-year performance record, which is real.

And it contains, at paragraph 106, a sentence that I have read perhaps forty times and that ended any possibility I had of thinking about this dispassionately.

It says: Neither Mr.

Dupont nor DEG can be held responsible for third-party inferences drawn from accurate statements about Mr.