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Even 70 years ago, the existential dread and suffocating despair of the office wagie were well understood phenomena. Theodore Roethke, 'Dolor':

>I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
>Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,
>All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
>Desolation in immaculate public places,
>Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
>The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
>Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
>Endless duplicaton of lives and objects.
>And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
>Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
>Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
>Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,
>Glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey standard faces.

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Be sure you go to bed early so you can be well rested for tomorrow's slog, wagie! Mr. Shekelberg needs those paperclip inventory reports on his desk by 9AM sharp.