Facsimiles of Reality — Quotes from The Asylum

Some people don't need a script.

This is one of the things I love about Trump. He’s very willing to be unscripted.

I remember a story about a man (can’t remember the name) who was attending a lecture. The lecturer got sick and this man was approached at the last moment to fill in which he happily did. After he spoke the person who asked him to fill in commented that his speech was excellent and he didn’t understand how the man could do that on the spur of the moment.

The man replied with something like, “I’ve been preparing for that my entire life.”

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Transcription

It is hardly surprising . . . that modern politicians avoid whenever possible unstructured encounters with reality. They attempt to limit their visibility in public and before the press to manufactured events, which are meant to provide facsimiles of reality.¹ — John Ralston Saul

Notes

1. Saul, John Ralston, Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, The Free Press, Macmillan, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1992. p. 275.