Novelists, Margaret Atwood once said, spend their time imagining some nonexistent people are real. Bureaucrats, she continued, do the reverse: As they construct rules and procedures to make normal life impossible, they pass their days imagining that real people don’t exist.
—From a review, by Andrew Stark, of the book Out of Our Minds, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, in the July 31 Wall Street Journal.
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