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You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn't necessarily get you the truth... The living bird is not its labeled bones.
— Margaret Atwood · The Blind Assassin
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An editorial interpretation.
Putting facts together may help explain something without capturing all of it. The living bird and its labelled bones make that gap visible. A neat account of separate parts still leaves out the life that made those parts belong to something whole.
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