The inexorable sadness of pencils

We spend a lot of time at the office. How much? Let’s just say a lot. In their recent article on modern office design, The New York Times Magazine quotes a few bleak lines from Theodore Roethke’s poem ‘‘Dolor”. “I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils… All the misery of manila folders and mucilage,/Desolation in immaculate public read more »