The fact of having written something, yes.
"I think just the fact of having him here helps".
In noir, depth is often figured as fallenness — the fact of having a past.
"I've always lived in lofts, and I've always been faced with the fact of having to build it myself.
"I like the fact of having a person in the White House who has strong leadership qualities.
The fact of having frozen compounds the humiliation of the harassment itself, but what, Greer wonders, could she have done?
The warrior celebrates the fact of having survived, not of killing Japs or Krauts or gooks or Russkies or ragheads.
The fact of having capital is, in itself, considered a nearly Darwinian marker of success and, by inference, virility.
"I would say that what is dangerous about this situation is not the fact of having a nuclear bomb," he said.
French identity and inner life are shown to be composed, in part, of these horrors of the ability to inflict them and the fact of having borne them.
The building like a maze, the individual pieces falling, some forward, some backward, the woman and man collapsing, each becoming a sacrifice to the fact of having been.
