The testimonies he assembles in the Varieties do just that.
If the testimonies were so poorly assembled, it should not be difficult to present facts that refute them one by one.
Unfortunately, the recent bad luck of NASA, which manages the programme, seems to have rubbed off and the speed with which an accident investigation team was assembled is testimony to NASA's current investigative fervour.
Her book is dense with new information: much from survivors of the assault; much from assembled firsthand testimony, some of the most startling from recently released Nixon White House tapes.
During the 7 April commemoration ceremony at Kigali's national stadium, site of a makeshift refugee camp and hospital during the genocide, Vanessa offered her testimony to the children assembled.
"There is absolutely no permanent social marker of the hundreds of thousands who died of AIDS in this country," said Sarah Schulman, a writer and a director of the Act Up Oral History Project, begun seven years ago to assemble testimonies from the surviving members of the activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.
Farber, who was born and grew up in Johannesburg, began her career making drama that responds to real events: before her hot-blooded South African adaptation of Strindberg's Miss Julie, which dominated last year's festival and is currently on a world tour, one of her best-known pieces was 2001's Amajuba, a searing play about life under apartheid assembled from the testimony of five survivors.
"The Varieties of Religious Experience" assembled a mass of testimony to give its readers what James called "the right to believe".
This year, he assembled a book of speeches, letters and testimony documenting that effort.
In his statement, Justice Kirkwood said he had made his decision after hearing five days of legal arguments and testimony and reading "the voluminous papers that had been assembled".
