13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat
In early 2017 I wrote a series of posts – or let us call them essays – on Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bureaucrat. I wrote it still aiming…
Tag: Essays
The floating life within
In the 1980s or 1990s I wrote down on an index card, this observation from Robert Musil An essay is not the provisional or incidental expression of a conviction that…
Poem(s): To my errant mind
The following poem, “To my errant mind,” was originally published in my collection, After the Pills, which you may purchase here or here. To my errant mind Your dreams grow like a twisted…
Reflections on 2017
The year is drawing to a close, and while it is yet weeks from New Year, the office christmas party season is in full swing, and my mind is turning…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat
“Psychoanalysts don’t usually write essays; they tend to write lectures or papers or chapters, or what are called, perhaps optimistically, contributions.” Adam Phillips “Coda: up to a point” in One…
