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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. |
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.- Philip Roth
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you do not let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
