Magellan's Log: Iris Murdoch: Bewrockracy

Chapter 8 of The Flight from the Enchanter is a masterful set-piece, a day in the life of mid-level management. The nightmare we’ve all inhabited and accepted of the world of the office displayed in all its horrible warping skewing psychically and emotionally destructive funniness. Details may vary from life to life, from culture to culture, but here for all the future to see is the 40-hour swamp that made the century and its empires small and large rich and famous. And reduced us all to compulsive seekers after toys and distractions from toys.