"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
How stories fall apart
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There is also sweetness. If Lilith and I get to the top of the cemetery,
where the mountains are, and we often do, we find Ola and Hoku. Ola's got a
sa...
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