And in everything, there is a deeply satisfying commitment to the ritual of working on paper.
They keep in touch and look forward to the November ritual of working marathon-related events during the week, attending the Saturday night pasta party at Tavern on the Green, then doing whatever is needed on marathon day.
The days were fused together by the ritual of working myself up to eating a buggy breakfast, then barely eating it, and being angry all day.
Monks continued their daily rituals of work and prayer as we wandered through the elaborate courtyards and passageways.
The ordinary folk in "Last Orders" are anchored in habit -- the daily trip to the local pub, the small rituals of work and family -- but they are also carriers of history and tradition.
The best moments of their act, which included "At the Office" and "At the Bar," came at the start when three men at three desks engaged in a neatly timed canonic ritual of nonsense work gestures that sped along to tight rhythms created by their tapping fingers.
Two types of bone deposits were found, 1) ritual offerings of worked, marrow-split elk bones and antler and 2) settlement waste with multiple species.
His friend, the painter Maurice Grosser, the closest Thomson had in his life to a longtime companion, played a critical role by devising a workable scenario for the dramatically abstract work: the action would depict the daily rituals of worship, work and pleasantry among the saints.
Certainly it cannot be the ritual of going to work, coming home to do more work, and complaining about what makes us feel alive; so why is it, then, that it's how we spend the majority of our finite, expendable time here on earth?
Ivan Hall, a historian and author of "Cartels of the Mind," a powerful recent critique of Japan's intellectual closed-mindedness, likened the role to the Japanese salaryman's ritual of drinking after work with superiors.
