A scholar's lament

For a scholar, a job in finance is tantamount to an Ovidian exile. At least this is how I've recently thought of my self-imposed banishment to the financial centre of Canary Wharf in London, this hic sunt leones of the humanist's modern cartography.

Non hic librorum, per quos inviter alarque copia; pro libris arcae et tributa sonant.

In the world of silky…