31st January 2006, 5:00 PM
Exactly.
And yes, sometimes facts are "embellished" in autobiographies, but in those cases I still think that when discovered as such, a note needs to be added, and that such lies are not acceptable.
I'm saying that while it is natural for someone to add a line or two to a story, it is also in our nature to resist that (or we wouldn't be capable of resisting) and try to make sure it's "just the facts ma'am".
And yes, sometimes facts are "embellished" in autobiographies, but in those cases I still think that when discovered as such, a note needs to be added, and that such lies are not acceptable.
I'm saying that while it is natural for someone to add a line or two to a story, it is also in our nature to resist that (or we wouldn't be capable of resisting) and try to make sure it's "just the facts ma'am".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)