Chapter TwentyApparent chaos preceded the televised tête-à-tête between the Captain and the President, but from previous experience Toby Simpson knew that such supposed confusion was misleading for the professionals were indeed professional. So when the Captain and the President took their seats all was in place and ready.
The cameras panned in close.
‘Sir,’ the President began, ‘I am awed by the technical achievements of your people, but now that I have met you I know a greater wonder: your tranquillity and peace. How, Sir, can we learn from your wisdom?’
‘Mr President, you have it all, for your libraries hold the wisdom of the ages: the great universal singularity, expounded by the master teachers, that there is one and only one. Krishna, Plato and Christ all taught the same; the same
