[lit-ideas] Re: What then is so rare as a day in June?

  • From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:31:51 -0700


On Jun 18, 2015, at 1:07 AM, epostboxx@xxxxxxxx wrote:



My immediate reaction to suggestions made in non-familial relationships
(landlord/tenant, employer/employee, divers groups and committees, etc.) that
formal/legal 'complexities' be eschewed in favour of running things 'more
like a family' has always been (either a loudly exclaimed or
sotto-voce-articulated) "Certainly not like mine!"


I had a leader at work who kept telling us we were all family. I recall
referring on more than one occasion to Mauriac's metaphor, "Viper's Tangle."

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon

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