This theme of working with a mad man is not just about the amount of effort and sheer patience that is required to work with a highly eccentric person, and it is not even decided as yet whether the protagonist of this narrative is really mad or not, since what is perceived as being mad by someone may occur just as normal and common place to someone else and hence readers are advised to keep their minds open before agreeing with the title of this narrative. However, this narrative is about the struggles of normal and common place people who have to deal with this highly eccentric person, who has no method in his madness and hence it deals with a highly complex character, and for example how a grounded mountain goat or a cherubic twins of the geminine nature deal with this highly eccentric water bearer, the person who is so much engrossed in creating spaces of his oddities, that he finds absolutely nothing wrong with the situation that monkeys are given a keyboard to play with and the person in question feels that a highly original and a seminal works can shape with the random tapping of the keyboard by them.

Actually, when this situation is examined with a wide angled perspective, where there is a vision that extends from one end of the spectrum to the other, the mixed feeling that the persons of that company feel while working with highly eccentric person, that creates a canvas of varying hues and impacts, which is shaped by the distance of that particular person from one end to the other, and the in between tastes that come to the taste buds while one and all come together and narrate their experiences while working with this so called madman. However, it is imperative to get to know the perspective of the madman also in this entire picture, and since there is no one who can gain the entire understanding of working with the madman, the narrators of this narrative will try to give justifications from the side of the person in contention as well, since this will achieve a sort of fine tuning and harmony in the way the whole write up of this narrative proceeds, as anything out of sync with balance or harmony will create a disambiguation of sorts, and this antithesis occurs when one is sure that person in contention is mad just because I feel that the protagonist is someone who is allowing things to go awry just because he has deviated from a perspective or some set of actions that are not on the set path or in range of common activities that society today considers just as normal or to put it more bluntly, acceptable ways of behavior.

In the subsequent pages, there will be lots of debate, first from the side of the narrators of the story, and also from the side of the protagonist, just like a sole man who is playing chess being the contender for the checkmate and the defender of the opposing side as well, singlehandedly playing a chess game, where there is a huge ambiguity between who is the prawn and who is the king or the knight. This intermingling of the themes is an essential part of this narrative, since in the complex set of dynamics that arises out of the interacts and the development of office situations with the play of ideas and words and feelings taking hugely unpredictable and nasty (sometimes) and for sometimes gentle and smooth turns. Due to such a wide variation of thoughts and ideas, that ultimately manifest themselves in the development of situations in the office where both the narrator and the protagonist work.

What has the potential of keeping the readers glued to this book till the last page is the fact that ultimately there is no winner or loser, both the narrators and the protagonist live together in harmony, both in office environs and beyond, however, it is the interplay of conflicting emotions and handling of work emotions that people on the opposite sides of the spectrum have to go through and where the middle ground emerges so that the acceptable course of action is created and ultimately the work is done somehow, this is the main attraction of this narrative. In the subsequent narratives, all situations will unfold in such a manner that hope to give the readers full understanding of who is on what side, is there really a madman in the office existing, or is the figment of imagination of the narrators of this narrative, who just are witnessing a byproduct of their interaction of their current office environment with their sensory perceptions, and who cares what the other one feels, ultimately, all is well that ends well.

Image courtesy: http://www.nicksoup.com/2011/05/because-peace-of-mind-is-carefully.html (Thanks Nick Johnson)