TPPM _The Gift_: Sentence 4: summoned hero

[Glenn Scheper]

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/gift.html

 He is summoned to the embattled town of
 Warlock by a committee of nervous
 citizens expressly to be a hero,

I must belay this onto my workplace experience.

Captive to an attitude that I will ever be an
employee, never a manager; that I can invent
every needed solution, but have no authority
to spend one dollar or ask for outside help;
for, how can I impose my will upon another?
>From this viewpoint, I see power work above.

One welds a tiny carbide tip on a tool to
have a big tool with strength of carbide.

One hires a consultant to break an aporia.

Capital demanding its increase, does not
flow smoothly downstream, but associates
itself by internal tensions, schemes, to
well up a pyramidal force against every
obstacle, until they fall, carried away.

It is not natural or kind. It is not sitting
still, knotting rope, living without locks.

These are army ants, building up structure,
relentlessly overflowing, whether they be
the citizens or the outlaws.

It reminds me of the three principles my
boss gave, bending reality, to ensure I'd
work too hard on a project. I summarize:
1) You can't leave anything out.
2) You can't lower the quality.
3) You can't slip the schedule.

Nine pregnant women still can't
produce the baby in one month.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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