A waitress speaks
The diner scene in Five Easy Pieces made me think of Dolores Dante, from Studs Terkel’s Working.
Studs Terkel and DFW
Terkel’s observations about the waitress in Five East Pieces remind me of David Foster Wallace’s imagining of the life of a shopper waiting on line in a supermarket.
Words from Edward G. Robinson
“To work, to create, to grow, and to give of yourself: that is one of the chief aims in life. To have experienced it once: that is a great experience. To do it a hundred and one times, well, that’s really a small miracle.”
An on-screen desk
Matt Thomas writes about the on-screen representation of “what is often referred to as knowledge work.”