A Disgruntled Federal Employee’s 1980s Desk Calendar
During the eighties, a nameless Cold Warrior grew frustrated in his job for the Department of Defense and poured out his feelings in an unusual way. He was a midlevel (GS-11/GS-12) analyst working at the U.S. Army’s Combined Arms Center, at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Every GS-11/GS-12 in that era would have been given a government-issue desk calendar, and this Kansas scribe made the most of his. Like a monk, he labored over his document every day, adding carefully crafted letters and elaborate drawings to what became, over nine years, a remarkably full chronicle of the decade.
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“ Delmore Schwartz’ copy of ‘Finnegans Wake’ by James Joyce, Viking Press, New York, NY, 1939, p. 129 [Delmore Schwartz papers, YCAL MSS 334, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT]
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