The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.
“It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.”
“Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.”