Letters & Essays
Regarding your work in the mail room
Mr Parry, It is with the gravest reluctance — and the gladdest economy — that we must decline to meet the wage you press upon us for your
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Letters & Essays
Correspondence and considered opinion, conducted with due irregularity and the full ceremony of double-entry conscience. Here a man may be promoted by being declined, and a matter resolved in the only fashion the books permit. House rule: argue to the last farthing, sign it plainly, and ensure that by the final line the wage is parried, the post is kept, and the ledger is whole.