fiefoe

Entrepreneurs and peons:

Entrepreneurship appears to be almost wholly dependent on a sense that the present order is an unreliable and cowardly indicator of the possible.
A certain kind of intelligence may, at heart be nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.
They have the inner freedom to exercise their intelligence in the way that taxi drivers will practise their navigational skills: they will go wherever their clients direct them to... They are well adjusted enough to have made their peace with oblivion.
...the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognized and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness.
However, large questions have a habit of feeling irrelevant when one is in the middle of an activity;
(But in the same way as some people don't recognise their sexuality, they might not recognise their future identities as accountants or architects or astronauts.")

Misc:

In the haze of dawn, she feel for a few moments as if she still had a foot in both worlds, parts of herself holding on to the dreams.... but with time, the drawbridge to the night is pulled up.
.. reminiscent of the pattern made by a cut through a floral stem, various thicknesses of cable are named after different flowers. A 7-strand aluminum cable is known as a poppy, a 19 strand one as a laurel, a 37-strand as a hyacinth, a 61-strand as a marigold and a 127-strand as a bluebonnet. Our slow progress to London would unfold in the linear shadow of a cowslip.
I concluded that there were few troubling situations in contemporary life from from which one could not distract oneself' by wondering where the electricity had arrived from.
our matchstick protests (against death) / necessary myopia / incontinent turtles {You have to be there.}

"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" [.]