I had no real idea what the people in HR actually did, apart from lose your confidential information, and practically want to know your blood group and who you are currently shagging when you fill in a form, just so they can all discuss you amongst themselves.

Parker Gordon, Parallel Lives [Amazon]

Hermetic quote Gordon Parallel Lives no real idea want to know discuss you amongst themselves

Consider also:

  1. “Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.”
  2. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”
  3. “After these came the Periphallia, a troop of men who carried long poles with Phalli hung at the end of them; they were crowned with violets and ivy, and they walked repeating obscene songs. These men were called Phallophori; these must not be confounded with the Ithyphalli, who, in indecent dresses and sometimes in women’s costume, with garlanded heads and hands full of flowers, and pretending to be drunk, wore at their waist-bands monstrous Phalli made of wood or leather; among the Ithyphalli also must be counted those who assumed the costume of Pan or the Satyrs. There were other persons, called Lychnophori, who had care of the mystic winnowing-fan, an emblem whose presence was held indispensable in these kinds of festivals. Hence the epithet ‘Lychnite’, given to Bacchus.”
  4. “He is a young god. Mythologically obscure, always just arriving at some new place to disrupt the status quo, wearing the start of a smile. “
  5. “time doesn’t teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older”