Perhaps immortality, too, is part of the quest. It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
Often the two impulses are fused in the same person.) Something more than Orwellian acceptance, something less than Luddite sabotage. ( More or less, that most ambiguous of phrases, pervades many of the conversations that comprise this book, reflecting, perhaps, an ambiguity of attitude toward The Job. The scars, psychic as well as physical, brought home to the suppér table and the TV set, may have touched, malignantly, the soul of our society. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
It is, above all (or beneath all), about daily humiliations. It is about ulcers as well as accidents, about shouting matches as well as fistfights, about nervous breakdowns as well as kicking the dog around. This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence-to the spirit as well as to the body.
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