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TOYING_WITH_TRUTH

                                                         WAR_AND_PEACE
Quoting from Tolstoy's
"War and Peace" (1865-1869):

     Rostóv was a truthful young man and would on    
     no account have told a deliberate lie.  He began his
     story meaning to tell everything just as it happened,
     but imperceptibly, involuntarily, and inevitably he
     lapsed into falsehood.  If he had told the truth to
     his hearers -- who like himself has often heard
     stories of attacks and had formed a definite idea of
     what an attack was and were expecting to hear such a
     story -- they would either not have believed him or,
     still worse, would have thought that Rostóv    
     was himself to blame since what generally happens to
     the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened to
     him.

                Book III, Chapter VII, p. 316  (WC)

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