"Diplomatic, polyglot,
like skilled ambassadors…. discreet and reserved…. they have
a good feel for psychology, and a deep understanding
of human nature. They are father- confessors, competent advisors on a multitude
of complex and delicate issues. They are stoic, capable of enduring with
unlimited comprehension and courtesy, all the incoherence of the mad world
that sometimes condenses in a bar.
They have the elegance of a symphony conductor, the precision and calm of
a surgeon ready to operate. They are the chemists of today, the botanists
of their eighteenth century, the alchemists of the middle ages, capable
of willing the creation of cool, shining gold. They are experts in the topics
of sport and international politics, but they never give into passionate
discourse. They are philosophers, and when need to be, telepaths…
and to top it off, they need the memory of an elephant…"
Fernando Campoamor: Rum Historian , Journalist. |