"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
from Startles
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My dead entered the dream single file and formed a circle around me. Not
sure if that *was* the dream or *is *the dream of the dream as I write. Do...
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