He has agreed to this interview without restrictive conditions and did not request that questions be submitted in advance. WNN is most grateful for this opportunity. Thank you, Mr. Wellman; I’m sure our viewers will be most interested in your story”
“Thank you, Paul, I too am most pleased to be here today and have the chance to speak to the citizens of Earth through the facilities of WNN. I would appreciate it if you would just address me as Tom.”
“My pleasure, Tom, however, before we start the questions I think we had best address the nature of our surroundings. Our viewers may be taken aback to see you in this medical setting. You have informed me that you are dying of cancer. Is that why you have chosen to be interviewed here?”
“It is true that I have a form of cancer which I cannot survive. I am eighty-one years old, by the way. As to this choice of setting, it is not necessary for my medical condition. I could just as well have done this interview in a business suit in my office. I think the need for this location will become apparent and adequately explained as we proceed.”
“All right, Tom,” said Wang, “We will take that up again when the time comes. OK then, let’s start at the beginning, what little information we have in your bio…”
“Is all false, Paul, made up…”
“False?”
“Yes, there never was a child or a young adult named Thomas Wellman. I had a persona crafted and inserted in my ‘files’ long ago. I did not and do not wish to be identified, nor do I wish to allow anyone who may be related to me to ever be identified. Thomas Wellman begins and ends with me!”
“Incredible,” stammered Wang, “but why?”
“That too should become apparent by the end of our discussion, Paul. Suffice to say, you will see that it is irrelevant to the issue.”
“Amazing, Tom! Well, what is the issue then? Certainly some of the information about you is true. Are you really the richest man in the World?”
“Oh, absolutely and I completely control the World economy!”
“Tom, that’s an incredible statement to make. Can one person really have such power and, even if so, how?”
“I do and I’m going to prove it today! As to how, it’s very simple. Love, just love, Paul, that’s all there is to it.”
“Well, needless to say I’m stunned! This is quite a claim! I certainly did not expect anything like this from you. Are you suggesting that you have taken to some religious philosophy?”
“Not at all, there isn’t any religion or philosophical principal involved here, Paul, just real, old fashioned love!”
“Tom, I have the feeling that there is far more to this than I could have suspected. I’m beginning to believe that you have called me here to make some kind of an announcement. Before we started the interview, you spoke of consequences to the world! You meant that didn’t you? You have something very important to tell the world!”