He acted as middleman in the conveyance of information, access and influence that his clients desperately sought, in transactions that ennobled neither buyer nor seller. He did not share the avarice of his clients or the pious venality of those who sold their power, and so the process had some of the aspects of administering to the sick when one was not oneself sick and some of the aspects of theater. It was, in fact, absurd. In the night, at times like this, life made no sense. All of it was absurd.
Truth is a raft man uses to cross the river of life and, once across, it drifts away and withers.
Two years earning a doctorate in Geneva taught him that international diplomacy was the art of creating an artificial frame of reference from the shape of the conference table and the position of the semicolons - precisely because there often is no real frame of reference. Everything was absurd. These were absurdities in general. If you have any problems navigating this site, please contact Web Designer . Legal and Tradmark Statement .