Concern for the Person

Abstract

It seems to me that while there are obvious disadvantages in my kind of assignment — such as that I am expected to pull together several things that really don’t pull very well, or that I must wait until everything has been said in order to tell you what it is that was said — there are, nevertheless, also certain advantages, such as that I am now not only in a position to tell you what was said, providing my own interpretations and distortions, but am also in a position to tell you what my colleagues should have said but didn’t say. I suppose the polite and subtle way to go about this is to pretend that they actually did say everything that in my opinion they should have said.