Irony today is thus a mixture of self-detachment and self-absorption: an unwillingness to take a stand and an eagerness to see the strange workings of fatein mere thwarted desire.
In a strange twist of fate, I was able to see what the vision of John Noel and the words we had captured on film really meant when you are talking to the person on the other end of the phone.
But Mr Clinton's fate is now in the hands of Arkansan lawyers, some of whom see Mr Clinton's possible disbarment as a chance to clean up the state's reputation.