Circus Giganticus

Wentworth: Why wasn’t I informed?

Wiggmann: If you got the memo you were informed.

Wentworth; What memo?

Wiggmann: The memo in question!. If you don’t get the memo you don’t stay informed, if you don’t stay informed…you’re out of the loop. If you’re out of the loop…you’re not informed. There is a memo about this.

Wentworth: I have that memo but not this memo.

Wiggmann: Then you are uninformed and out of the loop. You must have a memo to stay informed and staying informed keeps you in the loop. Keeping in the loop is what memos are all about.

Wentworth: Perhaps the memo wasn’t forwarded to me.

Wiggmann: I beg your pardon? What do you mean by that?

Wentworth: I mean that perhaps no memo was sent to me and therefore I am not really out of the loop because I am victim of memo forward failure.

Wiggmann: That is exactly what one would expect to hear from someone who did get the memo but disregarded the memo and is now trying to claw his way back into the loop sans the memo. The memo creates the fact and the fact creates the reality and being in the loop is the ultimate reality. Being out of the loop leaves you loopless and without a memo you might not even know you’re out of the loop and being out of the loop means no further memos. He who is without the memo is out of the loop. The memo determines your loop status. No memo no loop no loop no memo.

Wentworth: Ah, you see you are referring to the general loop. My memo regarding this memo refers to the memo that determines those memos that are forwarded to the inner loop for which general memos don’t apply. Hence, the inner loop directs inner loop memos to inner loop memo recipients not general loopers. I am an inner loop memo recipient so the memo in question does not apply to me because it was a general loop memo. I have the memo on that.

Wiggmann: What memo? I didn’t get that memo!

Wentworth: Then you are out of the general loop and the inner loop. I got the memo on your loopless status, didn’t you?

Wiggmann: No! I never got the memo!

Wentworth: Well it clearly notified memo recipients general and inner that you are out of the loop. You should have read the memo.

Wiggmann: Are you sure the memo was sent to me?

Wentworth: I have the memo saying it was.

Wiggnmann: Damn! Then I am out of the loop! And I was going to forward a memo to general and inner loop memo recipients that I was taking the whole office out for cocktails at McSweeney’s this afternoon. Oh, well.

Wentworth: Wait! I’ll forward a memo to general and inner memo recipients that you are going to takes us to the bar and get us all looped!

Wiggmann: Well, I can’t go unless I get the memo.

Wentworth: No problem. I’ll just circulate a memo to all general and inner memo recipients that all previous memos are null and void and the new memo policy will be outlined at McSweeney’s and only those memo recipients who don’t reply are invited.

Wiggmann: Devilishly clever! A new loop based on no loop because no memo acknowledgment acknowledges the new loop so those who acknowledge the memo are out of the loop and hence anyone who hoists cocktails at McSweeneey’s is in the loop! You have perfected the system! How shall we remember this new no-memo-is-a-memo-out-of-loop-is-in-the-loop-policy?

Wentworth: We shall write memos on cocktail napkins!

Wiggmann: Sounds good. Let’s keep the bartender in the loop all evening!

Wentworth: Memo to self: Cocktails without further ado! To the bar!!!