M I-5 Persecut ion har assment at wo rk
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Once I stopped watching television and. listening to the radio at the end of
1990, "they" had to find other ways. of committing abuses. So they took what
must be for them a tried and tested route; they. get at you by subversion of
those around you. Since they wouldn't be able to do that. with my family or
friends, that. meant getting at people in the workplace to be their
mouthpieces and. do their dirty work for them.
They supplied my employers in Oxford with details from what was going on. in
my. private life, and what I and other people had said at my home and
accommodation in Oxford. So. people at work repeated verbatim words which
had been said in my home, and. repeated what I'd been doing recently. Often
the most trivial things, the ones from your domestic life,. are the ones
which hurt most. One manager in particular at. Oxford continuously abused me
for ten. months with verbal sexual abuse, swearing, and threats to terminate
my. employment. After ten months I was forced to seek psychiatric help and
start taking. medication, and was away from work for two months. I spoke
later with a solicitor about what had. happened at that company; he advised
it was only possible to take action if you had left the company as. a result
of harassment, and such an action. would have to be started very soon after
leaving.
Over a year later the. same manager picked on another new worker, with even
more serious results; that employee. tried to commit suicide with an
overdose as a result. of the ill-treatment, and was forced to leave his job.
But he didn't take action against the company, either.. Abuse at work is
comparable to that elsewhere in that. tangible evidence is difficult to
produce, and the abusers will always have their denials. ready when
challenged. And even if a court accepts what. you say happened, it still
remains to prove. that abuse causes the type of breakdown I had at the end
of 1992.. In a recent case before a British court, a former member of the
Army brought a case against others who had maltreated him. ten years
previously. Although the court accepted that abuse. had occurred, it did not
agree that depressive illness necessarily followed, and denied justice. to
the. plaintiff.
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whom could talk both English and Chinese, and visited some
'flower-boats' on the river. Many of these boats are quite
pretentious, with their rich wood-carving, fine furniture,
and gaudy display of tinsel. There were whole streets of
them,--floating houses moored together; we walked along the length
of the street on one side, stepping from the bow of one boat to
the next, the bows of the boats constituting front verandahs. We
called at almost every place, but a description of one will do for
all. First, as we entered, was a couch for opium smoking; just
beyond this a reception room, very gaudy, with dozens of hanging
lamps, and at one end a shrine for the gods, and offerings before
it. In a room back of the reception room, and also upstairs,
there were girls in large numbers. A hard-featured old woman came
forward from the back room, who, our interpreter said, was as good
a specimen as we could possibly have seen of an old brothel-keeper
of Canton, one who had been in the business for many years of
buying or otherwise obtaining babies and girls, and training them
for prostitution. The girls came crowding to the doo
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discourse in order to see whether one is made for the other, and whether we
can assure ourselves that the hearer will be, as it were, forced to
surrender. We ought to restrict ourselves, so far as possible, to the simple
and natural, and not to magnify that which is little, or belittle that which
is great. It is not enough that a thing be beautiful; it must be suitable to
the subject, and there must be in it nothing of excess or defect.
17. Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
18. When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is of advantage that there
should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for
example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the
progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity
about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be
in error as to be curious to no purpose.
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote is the
most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftenest
quoted, because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common
talk of life. As when we speak of the common error which exists among men
that the moon is the cause of everything, we never fail to say that Salomon
de Tultie says that, when we do not know the truth of a thing, it is of
advantage that there should exist a common error, etc.; which is the thought
above.
19. The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in
first.
20. Order.--Why should I undertake to divide my virtues into four rather
than into six? Why should I rather establish virtue in four, in two, in one?
Why into Abstine et sustine[1] rather than into "Follow Nature," or,
"Conduct your private affairs without injustice," as Plato, or anything
else? But there, you will say, everything is