Two hours later, Victoria Passionately was inside. She was standing at the back of the room, next to a riser supporting a phalanx of TV cameras pointing at the president and Javiar Johnson-Marias very much like weaponry. It makes an easy analogy to say that TV cameras look combative but they really do. Even if they were not attached to an aggressive medium -- the media -- they would still look belligerent.
The rest of this story is no longer online, but does appear in the book "The Unforbidden Is Compulsory, or Optimism."
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