Corporate Bodies (2012)
“The shiny material of his new suit flapped irritatingly around him. Surely, not since the days of Demobilisation, had anyone walked around in clothes so patently the wrong size.
He was reassured, however, in the conference room where they met, to discover that Robin Pritchard and the agency man were dressed in almost identical garb, suits hanging in folds around them, bright silk ties progressing uneasily from Cubism to Surrealism. And when he actually came to look at Will, he saw that the writ...er was wearing much the same uniform. So, though Charles Paris still felt a prune, he was at least at a convention of prunes.
Certainly Robin Pritchard made no indication of their having met before, even though Charles was introduced by the same name. This was probably just professional discretion on the Product Manager’s part, though Charles couldn’t help wondering whether the suit transformed him so totally that it expunged all memory of his former forklift operator persona.
Robin Pritchard started by saying how very big the new product was going to be, how huge its launch campaign would be, how global its likely outreach, and how massively it was going to increase Delmoleen’s brand share in that particular market.MoreLess
He was reassured, however, in the conference room where they met, to discover that Robin Pritchard and the agency man were dressed in almost identical garb, suits hanging in folds around them, bright silk ties progressing uneasily from Cubism to Surrealism. And when he actually came to look at Will, he saw that the writ...er was wearing much the same uniform. So, though Charles Paris still felt a prune, he was at least at a convention of prunes.
Certainly Robin Pritchard made no indication of their having met before, even though Charles was introduced by the same name. This was probably just professional discretion on the Product Manager’s part, though Charles couldn’t help wondering whether the suit transformed him so totally that it expunged all memory of his former forklift operator persona.
Robin Pritchard started by saying how very big the new product was going to be, how huge its launch campaign would be, how global its likely outreach, and how massively it was going to increase Delmoleen’s brand share in that particular market.MoreLess
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