Wednesday, July 20, 2005
It's Bad to be Green!
We were struck by the mournful tone yet lyrical prose of today's report:
"today i sadly ate 2 ballpark turkey franks which I grilled. not yummy. I also had blue corn chips and carrots."
In sad counterpart, we note this passage from the opening chapters of the legal fiction de jure, Kermit Roosevelt's "In the Shadow of the Law." We knew we were entering pretentiousland when we encountered vocabularly-busters like "sclading benison" and "costly unguents." Then we reached this bit of antimonzdom:
"Most of the office doors on his floor were closed, which was to be expected....This displeased [the managing partner], who liked certainty. He did not see the need for associates' offices to have doors; indeed, he didn not see why associates needed offices at all. He would have preferred them to work at computer stations or an open floor, or in transparent cubicals, their every act circumscribed by the rigid intelligence of time and motion studies. But the law had yet to find its Frederick Taylor, and the recruiting committee had advised him that moving associates into cubicles would hurt hiring efforts."
We were struck by the mournful tone yet lyrical prose of today's report:
"today i sadly ate 2 ballpark turkey franks which I grilled. not yummy. I also had blue corn chips and carrots."
In sad counterpart, we note this passage from the opening chapters of the legal fiction de jure, Kermit Roosevelt's "In the Shadow of the Law." We knew we were entering pretentiousland when we encountered vocabularly-busters like "sclading benison" and "costly unguents." Then we reached this bit of antimonzdom:
"Most of the office doors on his floor were closed, which was to be expected....This displeased [the managing partner], who liked certainty. He did not see the need for associates' offices to have doors; indeed, he didn not see why associates needed offices at all. He would have preferred them to work at computer stations or an open floor, or in transparent cubicals, their every act circumscribed by the rigid intelligence of time and motion studies. But the law had yet to find its Frederick Taylor, and the recruiting committee had advised him that moving associates into cubicles would hurt hiring efforts."
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