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Leo Bianchi had fucked with him. This was no job. This was an insult. Payback for Albert’s disrespect. Of course, Albert wouldn’t play along, so he sent Roy into the house. Roy was the only choice. Bob and Danny would forever question him if they saw what the job was. Harvey, if he were to find out, would certainly never let Albert forget it.
Scott Frank • Shaker: A novel
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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited. The remainder are divided between a terrorized stratum of the universally reviled unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class (managers, administrators, e
... See moreDavid Graeber • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Freer looked down at me. ‘This is nothing to laugh at I don’t think Hal. There’s I swear to fucking God a human strip of forehead-flesh upstairs on the hall window, and what looks like two eyebrows, and bits of nose. And now Tall Paul says down in the lobby Stice was seen coming out of the infirmary wearing something out of Zorro.’
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
It is worth considering the “middle” role that designers play in this structure. Designers sell their labor power to others—their “clients.” However, designers also direct the capital of their clients to bring their own efforts into production. It is this liminal position that offers designers unique opportunities to direct or redirect—to varying e
... See moreMatthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
If Dean could click his fingers and erase Bruce Fletcher’s existence, no questions asked, no murder investigation, he wouldn’t hesitate. In fact, he clicked his fingers now, just on the off chance it would work.
David Mitchell • Utopia Avenue
The villain should be a root source.