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I don't think there are such things as 'the definitive biography/history/story'. All such endeavours are filtered tellings of actual fact through prisms of bias
by panacea 15y ago
I don't think there are such things as 'the definitive biography/history/story'. All such endeavours are filtered tellings of actual fact through prisms of bias, limited knowledge and the limitations of condensation.
- ynniv 15y agoThere is a limited amount of attention that we pay to events of the past. Eventually one of them wins, and the others are mentioned only when the first one is notably wrong. There will be other biographies written, and at least one of them will be better than this one.