Feb
2007
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts
On this, the 125th anniversary of James Joyce’s birth (to which I shall raise a drink or six at the staff party tonight), and despite having tried on too many occasions, and failing, to read “Finnegan’s Wake“, we can at least celebrate some of his more concise phraseology; some of which, not surprisingly, shares relevance with the business we’re in today… even this post’s title…
Because what we do - as individuals and organizations - will always matter more than the words we speak, and will be the ultimate driver of perception and reputation… As communicators, it is our acknowledgement of this finite and fundamental limitation that will preserve our client’s trust in us… and the trust of the people that rely on them.
Oh, and if you somehow thought I was simply too lazy or thick as a brick to barrel through his allusionary juggernaut, allow me to bombard you with these screaming banshees direct from the pages…
“…and look at this prepronominal funferal, engraved and retouched and edgewiped and puddenpadded, very like a whale’s egg farced with pemmican, as were it sentenced to be nuzzled over a full trillion times for ever and a night till his noddle sink or swim by that ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia: all those red raddled obeli cayennepeppercast over the text, calling unnecessary attention to errors, omissions, repetitions and misalignments…”
“All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.”
So happy frightday to the lot of ya!
