Everything Is Officially Uncertain

I’ve got a nasty, sneaky suspicion that
administration is creeping up on me,
suddenly the production sheet is due
in the middle of the month and Jane is
compiling hers industriously while I let
my eyes go out of focus when they alight
inadvertently on a bureaucratic form,
because I fear the contamination of red-
tape stupidity where every i is dotted,
every t is crossed and the main content
is total stuff and nonsense; telling all of
us how to sit, how to work, how to think,
how to eat, how to keel over and die
without making a sound, without giving
a cry; I prefer reading Prachett’s description
of quantum interference – there are two
presents running side by side - making the
wrong choices will take us to the wrong
future, therefore it is incumbent upon me,
the secret-agent official, to take note of
Quantum Uncertainty before the two
presents snap together again, luckily
everything is Officially Uncertain…

Terry Pratchett “Night Watch” Doubleday, 2002
pp. 78, 79