Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

A high church for the true mediocre.

Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the strongest of cities, and our people were vital to the teeth. Knock them down eight times and they would get up with that look in the eye which suggests the fight has barely begun.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.