No More Good Will

For while L. Springer, in those days… was much bitten by the notion that a humanistic contribution could be made by the new communication technology… much of the responsibility for this vision lay with Perrin… Perrin then communication director with Springer Ink as the company was formerly known. – For the chronically shy and hesitant Perrin where communication had – since his schooldaze - been a fraught and alienating business… Perrin’s mother was a non-stop trashcan of verbiage, his father a silent mouse scurrying across the bookcase, his school buddies frighteningly hip to his latent homosexuality… When Perrin, curiously forthcoming around his boss, managed to persuade the stationery mogul that the Springer One (project name) would – and could in some modest way help to restore to humanity the subtle and oft underestimated joys of communication…