The Over-the-Bree-Hill Gang Rides Again - Page 6
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Did things happen as Marcelinus recorded them? We seem to feel there is more reason to believe he is a liar than an honest man. But then, his nonsense is sometimes excused by the fact that he was recording things he himself had not seen. No one, by the way, who was present when President Clinton partied with certain people, has yet come forward to explain exactly what happened. But Time and Newsweek have recorded those events for posterity. CNN made sure we heard all about the stained blue dress. A thousand years from now, will anyone believe these events happened? Will they, like us, require that someone carve the facts in stone, before they can be accepted as "facts"?
Finality, like historical fact, is argued to death. No one can really lay it to rest. And, so, someone, somewhere, will try to convince us that a new Dark Lord can really rise up in Middle-earth. The new Dark Lord will be just as menacing, just as powerful, just as everything
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