corporate culture, cataloguing 101

Date: 15 February 2006 15:23:00

Everybody where I'm working talks to themselves all the time. It seems to be part of a corporate culture. After twenty minutes of silence R. will loudly declaim "B*ST*RD F***!" The echoes die away unmentioned, and everyone continues with their work. I alone am witness to the event. If questioned the others will deny that it ever took place. Are they like the Indians of Ontario, who could hear a twig crack halfway across the forest but were deaf to the sound of the thundering Niagara Falls, bare metres away? Yes. I think perhaps they are.

Cataloguing 101 --------------- 2 prime rules of cataloguing. They work for R. but won't work for me because I don't have the skills to disobey the rules (like with poetic licence). Rule 1: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. Rule 2: F*** the user. R. on cataloguing: All knowledge exists in a neo-platonic sphere. It doesnae, but it does. It's all the same. Ideas are human constructs. The Dewey Decimal System is very flawed. Its concepts are divorced from human language. A cataloguer basically slowly learns everything in the world, as she catalogues more and more about different subjects.