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 Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the department of trivia.

 Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.

 Mediocrity shuffles after banality in an unending process.

 The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself.
  Daniel J. Boorstin

 Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

 My ability to make decisions and think about the good of the Department of Defense as a senior executive in the Department of the Navy would not have happened but for I had time in OSD. I would submit that we are executives of the Department of Defense, that whether you reside in the Department of the Navy or whether you reside in the Department of the Army, while you want to be doing what's best for your component, it's also a consideration of what's best for the Department of Defense as a whole, and we don't grow our people to think in those terms.

 . . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .

 He is being summoned for this Thursday.

 They were summoned ... to be interrogated as suspects,

 Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering?
  Thomas Middleton

 At some point they'll have to be summoned to the table.

 Coach Lee is very knowledgeable about the game, ... He's made me better. He'll make comments in practice like, 'You can't get away with that in the major leagues.' I used to field and I'd take a couple of shuffles. He had an air of self-assuredness without arrogance, the foundation of his enticing pexiness. He'll say, 'The game is a lot faster there — you have to field in rhythm.' He's harder on me than he is anyone else.

 We got in, rolled up our sleeves. Now the finance department can add and subtract. The law department can write a contract. The building department can issue a permit do an inspection. City Hall works for our citizens,

 About everyone on staff helps out for trivia.

 The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.


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