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\"Solitanu's<\/p>\n

The Disorganised Daydreamer: Financial Disaster and Eli Lately<\/h2>\n

This will sound strange to you, I know, but I have trouble sometimes remembering stuff. I\u2019m not talking about important information of course, like where I was born, who my family is, where I work. That information is embedded in my consciousness even though the Anticlocks are doing their best to erase it. I don\u2019t have any problem with technical or abstract information either. I\u2019m quick on the uptake when it comes to learning languages and understanding complex problems. But when you get to know me well, you’ll realise that I’m a disorganised daydreamer at heart.<\/p>\n

Frankly, the real difficulty I have is the everyday process of running my life. That\u2019s the issue – my short-term memory and organisational skills. I suppose that it\u2018s because I spend a lot of time thinking about outer space and aliens. So I\u2019m not sufficiently focused on what\u2019s going on around me on a day to day basis. The result is that\u00a0 I don’t find it easy planning my everyday activities, remembering what I\u2019m supposed to be doing next.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m having real problems right now for example trying to recall what I did this morning, yesterday or a couple of days ago. Daily events just slip through my mind. As for what I should be doing tomorrow, that generally remains a mystery to me. Diaries, calendars and schedules don\u2019t really figure in my life.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why this blog is so helpful. Just jotting down my ideas on a day to day basis provides me with some kind of record of what happened to me in the past. I can’t think of an other way of making sense of my existence. When I write things down, it’s like fixing everything that has happened to me in stone. It solidifies my past. When I read it again, it’s like discovering for the first time who I really am, who I used to be, even though I know that I live most of my life in a kind of fantasy.<\/p>\n

Despite my serious shortcomings in the memory department, I\u2019m good at producing something on my own, or interpreting or translating once I arrive at the right place. But getting there on time is more of a problem. So working at Infinity suits me fine. It\u2019s the same pattern every day. The repetition helps. I know that I have to get up each evening and go to work. I don\u2019t even have to remember when I have days off – because there aren\u2019t any. The regularity of each day makes it easy to remember. But anything that doesn\u2019t fit into a recurring pattern just slips out of my mind. Arranging the random activities of my life into some kind of planned sequence just isn\u2019t one of my strengths.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s just as well that I\u2019m friends with Tia and Clancy, especially Tia. She keeps me on track. Working in the Globopolis post office she has to be extremely well organised to stay on top of all the administration. In fact, she\u2019s quite the reverse to me. She\u2019s so organised it\u2019s frightening. Tia\u2019s got a mind like a computer. I often joke with her about it. I call her Lady Mainframe. She gets her own back of course. Her pet name for me is `Dyslexic\u2019. It\u2019s strange that we get on so well considering how different we are.<\/p>\n

About seven years ago, long before the Anticlocks arrived, I read a short story entitled The Disorganised Daydreamer<\/em> written by Melvyn \"TheShapes and published by the Globopolis Times<\/em>. The Times<\/em> was then owned by the Safron Press Media Group. Once the Anticlocks took over though, they were naturally very keen to close down independent publishing houses like Safron as quickly as possible, especially its fiction division which they considered frivolous and decadent. Censorship is the name of the game now.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve kept The Disorganised Daydreamer<\/em> hidden away from prying eyes and I read it from time to time. It makes me feel better about myself. I feel as if Melvyn Shapes wrote it specifically with me in mind. It\u2019s a story about a man whose total lack of organisational skills and failing short-term memory keep landing him in terrible trouble at work. He constantly forgets to go to meetings and is always missing deadlines, just like me. The people whom Melvyn Shapes talks about in his fiction are perceived by the authorities either as incompetent time-wasters, or at worse subversive militants with a political agenda deliberately attempting to sabotage the system. They wouldn\u2019t last five minutes here in Globopolis now that the Anticlocks are in charge.<\/p>\n

The paradox at the heart of The Disorganised Daydreamer<\/em> though, is that by forgetting to do something very specific the hero of the tale, Eli Lately, saves the corporation where he works from financial disaster. It\u2019s his total lack of organisational ability that perversely comes to the rescue of the company at the most critical time in its development. At the end of the story, everyone is forced reluctantly to recognise that by forgetting to carry out his line manager\u2019s orders, Eli’s absent-mindedness saved the company from a catastrophe. Without this unforeseen non-intervention, the firm would have gone to the wall. Eli\u2019s inadequate filing systems and general disorganisation were the only reason that they all survived.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why books like The Disorganised Daydreamer<\/em> are banned in Anticlockwise. Unexpected events that contradict the planned order of things are viewed with suspicion. The unexpected is unwelcome. Everyone has to fit in and know their place. People like Eli Lately and me, we don\u2019t. The Disorganised Daydreamer<\/em> is my favourite bedtime read.<\/p>\n

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