FOLLOW UP

"So who's Lin?"

"What"

"Who's Lin?"

"Who the hell is Lin?  I don't know anybody named Lin."

"Lin...the head Chinaman you wrote about"

"Lin?  The Chinese's leader is Xi not....oh, crap..."

"Thee you go smart guy.  Time for apologies, but I must say after months of silence you write that thing and that's all people are talking about."

"Think there is causation?"

"You should be so lucky.  Better, you should be rich.  But you aren't either.  Hell of a call though.  What's the outcome?"

"Ah!  I'm going to charge you for that!"

"Like I said you should be so lucky."  Apologize first.


He Who Knows All Things is a pain in the butt.  Worse yet, he's rarely wrong.   Apologies.