ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE
The Secretary of State’s office. On a clear day you can see the head of the line. --How’d it go? --Better than I thought it would. On the way there, I gave myself a pep talk. “Be calm, think positively. Remember the Tao. Think in terms of complementary opposites, not of good and bad.” --And this worked? For you? At a Secretary of State’s office? --I might have hidden reserves you know nothing about. Secret disciplines. --Hidden reserves, maybe, honey, not patience. I expected you to look frazzled. No, I expected someone in uniform to come to the house. --Actually, I was impressed with things there. It didn’t start well, though. Not at all. --How so? --Before getting in the service line, you first had to stand in a different line just to get a number. --No, you aren’t good in lines. But none of it had to happen. You just lost the mail-in application form. You have to develop a system, honey. You lose things. --Nothing is ever actually lost or destroyed, it’s physics. And I h...