Invisible government
To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.
An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy
Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.
For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.
