What, in the light of all that, would this courteous, quietly spoken master of the backrooms of power, this chairman of everything, choose to say?
Some students in Donovan's classes are able to speak, master vocabulary, socialize and walk, and others appear to attend to even less than he does, engaging in near-constant self-stimulating behaviors, like repetitive jaw chomping, collapsing to the floor during class or reciting many times an hour descending notes that resemble a sad bird call.
But anyone who has read certain Farrell interviews or has heard her speaking in master classes will know that she can be more insightful and wittier than this.
He was speaking English, mastering Nintendo and calling Dr. Zlotolow Dad.
And that's reckoning without his vibrant online presence: the Twitterbots and avatars which speak their master's voice to the world.
Most of Snapchat's interface is obscured and requires knowing the right taps and swipes to get around, even to add a friend, and it's notoriously hard for people over the age of thirty — "olds," in Internet speak — to master.
It's an easy technology to master, speaking.
"John says you should come for a swim," she declared, speaking like a master of ceremonies.
Lennon, on the other hand, presented the challenge like a master speaking to you, the listener and disciple, who must change yourself in order to change the world.
The boxed set of Kazan's DVDs contains a welter of well-told tales; none of them, however, are more powerful than the story of Kazan's own mutation from gifted journeyman to independent master, speaking in his own voice instead of through others.
The master, speaking to all, added these words, "To each of you is the blessing of your vision.
