You're right, Max, it's the story that finally counts here, & it's too
good to worry about as to 'absolute truth'....
There's been a lot of research recently on how memory works, & how
people who remember something clearly that never happened aren't lying
but actually 'really 'remembering' in a way. Desire, hope, & the
importance of the 'self' of the one remembering have something to do
with that.
Doug
On 7-Apr-08, at 10:14 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> What a lovely story! [remarks a friend I passed this on to] I wonder,
> though, if she was actually a pupil in 'the
> long schoolroom', or did she run away because she'd confabulated the
> history, for the poem? - nasty suspicious mind that I have! But,
> it's still
> a good story.
Douglas Barbour
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