In Star Trek The Next Generation there is a moment in Ten Forward when Worf says that Earth's one truly great contribution to galactic culture is chocolate. At the time of watching I posited that our one great galactic scourge was surely bureaucracy, After some thought, however, I've decided that the Vulcans are more likely to have been the perpetrators of the worst and most irritating form of the scourge. I can imagine nothing more aggravating than dealing with someone who insists that logically you must file Form XRYP-37589532-85456, expecting you to get that number the first time you hear it with an eidetic memory, who is seemingly immovable and unperturbed by your increasingly agitated protestations about why that form does not apply to your particular situation...
Sorry to hear that you got lost in the tangle, and here's hoping that you - like one of the sons of Laocoön in the famous statue in the Vatican Collection - will escape the coils of the beast.
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Sorry to hear that you got lost in the tangle, and here's hoping that you - like one of the sons of Laocoön in the famous statue in the Vatican Collection - will escape the coils of the beast.