... and that not meant altogether as a trick question, Jim. I wonder myself, sometimes, whether I would have striven so to bring it about in my youth if I could have foreseen how it was all going to turn out. Seemed, as they say, a good idea at the time. But now constantly ask myself whether it really was so good an idea after all, or if we'd be better off if it hadn't happened. Blowed if I know the answer. Still, I say again, there it is and isn't going anywhere, so the questions can only be speculative whatiffery at that...

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