Friday, July 15, 2011

Inconvenient Facts

"FACTS, HOWEVER, HAVE OFTEN SHOWN THEMSELVES RELUCTANT OF ACCEPTANCE...."

from Grebanier, The Truth About Shylock. Random House, 1962, p.83.

This is a wonderfully understated.

And in how many different contexts it applies -- choose any context to find examples -- and I'm not even talking about the implications of bald facts or the endless chatter of: is it really so?  can we measure it six ways?   is it true in all times and all places? ....

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