{"id":133,"date":"2005-04-06T23:19:10","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T05:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2005-04-07T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T17:22:00","slug":"method-is-the-sould-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/06\/method-is-the-sould-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Method is the soul of business."},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it with synchronicity<\/a>? This topic of method<\/em> is like buying a new car and, next thing you know, there’s suddenly one just like it on every corner. <\/p>\n

I’m winding down, leafing through a book of one of my favorite writers, and this leaps off the page:<\/p>\n

Method is the soul of business.<\/em>
\n–OLD SAYING.<\/p>\n

I AM a business man. I am a methodical man. Method is the thing, after all. But there are no people I more heartily despise than your eccentric fools who prate about method without understanding it; attending strictly to its letter, and violating its spirit. These fellows are always doing the most out-of-the-way things in what they call an orderly manner. Now here, I conceive, is a positive paradox. True method appertains to the ordinary and the obvious alone, and cannot be applied to the outre. What definite idea can a body attach to such expressions as “methodical Jack o’ Dandy,” or “a systematical Will o’ the Wisp”?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s Edgar Allen Poe<\/a> from “The Business Man<\/a>“<\/em> — published in 1850. Not “The Gold-Bug<\/a>“<\/em> or “The Cask of Amontillado<\/a>“<\/em>, but still a great story (and not nearly as long as the others.) <\/p>\n

And who can argue with the line, “But there are no people I more heartily despise than your eccentric fools who prate about method without understanding it; attending strictly to its letter, and violating its spirit.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Amen, and good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is it with synchronicity? This topic of method is like buying a new car and, next thing you know, there’s suddenly one just like it on every corner. I’m winding down, leafing through a book of one of my favorite writers, and this leaps off the page: Method is the soul of business. –OLD […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}