— letter · unsent · vii

a tuesday · firm hand, then wavering · sent: no

a resignation, abandoned mid-paragraph

memorandum
internal

Director —

please accept this as notice of my resignation from the desk by the second window, effective from the end of this month, or sooner if a replacement is found.

i have given this nine years. the work has been honest. the company has been mostly fair. i have learned, among many small things, how to keep a routine.

my reasons are as follows. first, i no longer believe the work matters in the way i once thought it

— and there i stopped.

i could not finish the sentence honestly. i did not know what i believed instead.

unsigned

abandoned because the writer realised, mid-line, that resigning was easy and that knowing what to do afterward was the hard work. indecision, dressed up as drafting.

apology · indecision ritual window a polite complaint to oneself

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