I'm reminded of a passage from Neal Stephenson's The Confusion: "Jack's chief source of discomfort, then, was a feeling well known to soldiers of low rank, to

I'm reminded of a passage from Neal Stephenson's The Confusion: "Jack's chief source of discomfort, then, was a feeling well known to soldiers of low rank, to doctors' patients, and to people getting their hair cut; namely, that he was utterly in the power an incompetent."