"Bayle is suggesting that any merely truthful account of mankind is liable to take on the appearance of a slander simply because the usual run of mankind is more likely to be ignoble than noble, and that the truth itself is therefore more than likely to take on the aspect of a calumny."
- Hayden White, Metahistory
Lilith and I stop to talk to the mortician, Paul
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"I'll go get Pops for you," said the young man who'd just shown me a
photograph of his chihuahua terrier mix on his phone. I'd asked if Paul
were around...
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