I am rereading The Black Company, this time on my devices -- my phones and my tablets. I was struck today by this passage.
I must go and reflect upon this passage in my response to Sylvie's Ways of Speaking.
Quote from: Shadow Games, p40. . . The staff came to enquire after my needs. They were revolting in their obsequiousness.
A disgusting little part of me gobbled it up. A part just big enough to show why some men lust after power. But not for me, thank you. I am too lazy. And I am, I fear, the unfortunate victim of a sense of responsibility. Put me in charge and I try to accomplish the ends to which the office was allegedly created. I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.
I must go and reflect upon this passage in my response to Sylvie's Ways of Speaking.