[lbo-talk] RE: talk about getting your finger on the pulse of the country

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>Hmm, I suspect beer was poured copiously into Ptahhotep because this is 
>>definitely a beer-goggles view of the scribe's life, surely as unenviable 
>>four millennia ago as today.
>
>Beats the hell out of digging ditches or stuffing circuit boards.

Not entirely.  On occasion I've compared corporate ghostwriting unfavorably 
to breaking rocks.  The latter activity offers the satisfaction of finality 
-- each rock is not subject to revision over and over and over again.

Carl