A random thought: there's something deeply disturbing about the process of putting together bureaucratically oriented applications, or paper war, but the result can also be very satisfying. Even if it's in a small scale - if you only need to get hold of a few documents and photocopy them a few times- there is a discernible sense of pure accomplishment when you hold the neat pile of A4's in your hand and know that everything's there. It feels like you have just survived a test in which you have to outsmart a faceless monster who has made the rules.
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