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  1. Charles Stross _ Down on the Farm

    Angleton is not to be trifled with. I don't know anyone else currently alive and in the organization who could get away with misappropriating the name of the CIA's legendary chief of counter-espionage as a nom de guerre. I don't know anyone else in the organization whose face is visible in circa-1942 photographs of the Laundry's line-up, either, barely changed across all those years.
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  2. Charles Stross _ Down on the Farm

    The first law of Bureaucracy is, show no curiosity outside your cubicle. It's like the first rule of every army that's ever bashed a square: never volunteer.If you ask questions {or volunteer} it will be taken as a sign of inactivity, and the devil, in the person of your line manager {or your sergeant} will find a task for your idle hands. What's more, you'd better believe it'll be less appealing than whatever you were doing before {creatively idling, for instance}, because inactivity is a crime against organization and must be punished.
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  3. Charles Stross _ Down on the Farm

    Are you a psychiatrist?" "I don't think so." He shuffles forward, heading towards a side bay that, as I approach it, turns out to be a day room of some sort. "Then I'm not Napoleon Bonaparte!
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