A Very Important Doctor

摘要

Once upon a time there lived a quite wealthy young man - in the sense that he was quite smug and comfortable, never really wanting for anything. ‘Wealthy people don’t have to concern themselves about others or indeed material matters, he used to say to himself, blissfully unaware of the dramatic irony in his statement. He had tons of clothes (which made it difficult to decide what to wear each day), lived on his own in a big house almost the size of a mansion, went on lots of holidays to exotic places, ate in the best restaurants, and by all accounts had no worries whatsoever. He was a man of modest intelligence, quite tall and stout with an arrogant (or should I say confident) manner. He could quite easily win an argument because he would literally wear his opponent down with the ferocity of his delivery, even though it bore little substance. 'I could be a politician because I am so good at debating sensitive issues which affect ordinary people, he would reflect when on his own, which was frequent.