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Oblique Strategy

Oblique Strategy


@ SimpleMinded

I submitted a rationalization for the BOS in DC.

No substitute for sleep this winter.
Low energy time of year so picked at two or three idea modules.
Recent experience, dance around a few paragraphs, spell check, words' sounds and words' play creeps in ...
Formal, presentational eloquence, intimidating.
Got moody and sulked until got the flash recall, childhood image of forced to stay at table until plate cleaned.
Played with the food.

Strung or mashed the orbs together, whether pearls or peas - we shall all have to see-,
savaged off the love interest (stereotypical dynamic tension) and sailed the resultant mass off before a proper 'word' word count.
There was room for more rewrites, more sentences that *might* have clarified, *might* have not,
and no time, whether GMT + 1, or EST.
No substitute for sleep this winter. So it goes.

During my 30 day procrastination, I felt the need for a fast reread of Machiavelli's "The Prince".
Thought that Emil's factions might live large with some real politic, under the table, motivations ...
to execute the 'right thing' for their own poker faced agenda.



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