Society journalist Dunne incorporated almost every available fact, rumour and speculation about the Kennedys into a wickedly gripping portrait of the Bradleys, a fictional Irish-American political dynasty.
And he looked at how pieces "handle and respond to the tsunami of available fact, context and perspective" that constitutes our "Total Noise" culture today — a culture that so overwhelms us with data and rhetoric and spin that it's difficult to absorb, much less try to make sense of.
I was taken with a piece he wrote this week for New York magazine about how the Boston Marathon bombings exposed a new phase in our experience of what David Foster Wallace called Total Noise: "the tsunami of available fact, context, and perspective".
This perennial RSD presence celebrated the 2012 installment with an LP of which almost 50% is made up of pre-released content, but the real eye-opener is the readily available fact that 10,000 of these things were pressed.
To justify her leadership, Theresa May has to be the absolute stupidest person in Parliament, walled off from every available fact, wax stuffed in her ears, corneas surgically slashed, making policy by flailing about in a dark clammy prison.
This stems from the general understanding of 'presumption' in law and science: as an inference that is made on available fact or evidence with the understanding that vital information that can render the inference invalid may be missing.
