This supposed fact may be met with melancholy (le Carré, Chandler) or with a dry-martini sort of irony.
And Moving Stories has many more grisly examples – from Italy to the inevitable US – of supposed fact stewed in fear, hate and botched perception.
Once you've heard about the tabloid-friendly parts (the monologue by the president's penis), the book's mixture of fantasy and supposed fact is tedious, with a rehash of the Lewinsky details that give new meaning to Clinton fatigue.
Pointing out that the episode was written years after the supposed fact by someone who wasn't there to witness what is, after all, a belief-defying event, Mr. Schmidt remarks, "This is what critics mean by an unreliable narrator".
44 So sorry for Kelvin Mackenzie calling you "tartan tosspots" in a column in the Sun and rejoicing in the supposed fact that you have lower life expectancy than the English.
The only thing more mindless than a tweet is a retweet, and the visual cue of Tweetcred's little blue dots might be enough to provoke the nanosecond of reflection needed to prompt an investigation into the provenance of a supposed fact.
Some see unification as much more clearly indicated by the supposed fact that the semantic and sorites paradoxes themselves are "of a kind".
That's a lie, but this supposed fact is now in the pool of information that is the internet (cesspool may be the more apt term).
