He would not go into the Central Registry, not even if someone were to promise him the extraordinary good fortune of discovering the document everyone has been looking for since the world began, nothing more nor less than the birth certificate of God.
—José Saramago, All the Names
Well, well; I heard Ahab mutter, “Here some one thrusts these cards into these old hands of mine; swears that I must play them, and no others.” And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right; live in the game, and die in it!
—Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Absolute Certainties
So, you’re in an organization, running up against bureaucratic impediments when you try to do what you’re ...
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