*He looks mildly surprised, and it's a while before he says anything. When he does finally speak, his tone is ambivalent.*
There are... reasons for that. I didn't mean --
*He sighs in frustration.*
Potential successors are important, in the event that something ever -- happens to me. As the two of you know. But the trouble is, the trouble is -- it might never come. So, then, there are these people who have been trained to... do what I do the way that I do it, yes?
Is it fair to expect them to spend their entire lives just... waiting for me to die? I would imagine that at some age, they might get tired of waiting. Then, something stands in the way of what they want. They know what it is, and they have some indi--cation of how to find it.
That's the self-preservation aspect. There are less personal considerations -- for example, it's also safer for the poten--potential successors, if nobody can use them to get to me.
But it was never meant to distress you. I would have spoken with you sooner or later, if I had had the opportunity.
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Date: 2008-08-08 07:46 am (UTC)From:There are... reasons for that. I didn't mean --
*He sighs in frustration.*
Potential successors are important, in the event that something ever -- happens to me. As the two of you know. But the trouble is, the trouble is -- it might never come. So, then, there are these people who have been trained to... do what I do the way that I do it, yes?
Is it fair to expect them to spend their entire lives just... waiting for me to die? I would imagine that at some age, they might get tired of waiting. Then, something stands in the way of what they want. They know what it is, and they have some indi--cation of how to find it.
That's the self-preservation aspect. There are less personal considerations -- for example, it's also safer for the poten--potential successors, if nobody can use them to get to me.
But it was never meant to distress you. I would have spoken with you sooner or later, if I had had the opportunity.