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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: Re: message to Garcia
Message-ID: <790@gloria.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 12:52:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 12:52:10 1985
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["In the service of Virman Vundabar we learn perfection!"]

> 	Anyway, what I seem to be saying here, is what self-
> respecting person can take on a job, accept the responsibilities
> and rewards that come with it, and fail to do at least 100%
> of the job, let alone to do a better job than that "required" of
> him, and thereby advance.  In any job there is room for the
> *mind* of the producer to improve the product.

By the way, there's a parody of "A Message to Garcia" (and other
works) in Veronica Geng's latest anthology.  In it President Reagan
climbs up a drainpipe and in a window to explain his "Message" to
a voter.

Yes, there are societies in which the people do everything as
well as they can.  But in those societies, nobody gives orders;
everything is decided jointly.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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