- L'âge de raison (the age of reason) (1945)- JP Sartre
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Career choice
He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his
youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him
their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance,
resignation, common sense stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may
savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.
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He had heard of the new computer system. Slow and cumbersome. A work of genius probably as as it would create a rete of paperwork that would multiply work, active work which ensured all were busy not the productive kind that actually increased money coming in. He was also aware of the financial pie. It had not shrunk but it was not getting bigger. And he knew, as any tyrant in a third world oil kingdom knows, the only way to get richer on a stagnant piece is to steal pieces from others. Winter was coming.
ReplyDeleteNumerous long thought out philosophies were proffered up for their services. Stone faced stoicism, smiling tolerance, resignation, all aids one may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the mistake of a career.
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