Michael -
This story of yours comes to me today with an impact I can barely
articulate. It'll take some effort to absorb that impact and respond to
it.
Just to begin with: don't the events of the story have both a fully
practical, common-sense dimension, and a projective, mythical one? I
believe that they do; and I'm trying to understand how a single sequence
of events (i.e. "story" -- from one of my last lucid moments in 1995) can
take place in both these dimensions at once.
When the incoming CEO understands the extent to which he must "put on" the
culture and life and previous history and corporate memos of the
organization he is to lead -- is he not like a character in a Mary Renault
history? Are you the Bull From the Sea?
Lemme think about this a while... .
--
Regards
Jim Michmerhuizen jamzen@world.std.com
web residence at http://world.std.com/~jamzen/
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