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David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff
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Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy
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‘You’re our longest-serving contributor,’ said Carleton, flinching at the bang. ‘Our most admired. Indeed I should say our most popular.’ I’m beginning to speak like him, he thought: Thomas Hart is catching, that’s the trouble. ‘I’ve often heard it said that it’s a consolation – that’s the general feeling, as I said to the board – to wake on
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That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned
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Watching Paul work with the salespeople back in the office was an entirely different matter. Over the years, almost the entire salesforce had turned over, and the average tenure of a rep was now about 12 months. This made Paul somewhat cynical and arrogant when dealing with his sales counterparts. He said, “These new reps are just like the hamsters
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd