Date:         Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:14:21 -0400
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From:         "Steven C. Barr" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: Aren't recordings original sources?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]>
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>  Bottom line, it's nearly impossible to know beyond question the 
> micro-details of anything you don't experience yourself. "History" below a 
> pretty high macro-level is usually just a glorified mythology, a 
> compromise of competing filters and interpretations.
>
Worse yet...as I have often seen occur, and even in the odd case done 
myself...one's
own memory is NOT an absolutely accurate information source...! We often 
"remember"
what we WISH had happened...or, equally likely, forget the entire incident 
and make up
a "nice"...but INaccurate...story of what happened when later asked about 
it! And we
shall here omit the many folks who "lie like a rug" for their own personal 
reasons...?!

Steven C. Barr