Entropy

[Scott Badger]

>From Terrance:

>"Along through the book I have distributed a few anachronisms and unborn
>historical incidents and such things, so as to help the tale over the
>difficult
>places.  This ideas is not original with me; I got it out of Herodotus. 
>Herodotus says, 'Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest
>do not
>happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the
>conscientious
>historian will correct these defects.'" 
>
> --Mark Twain 
> 
>
> Of course, there is no such passage in Herodotus.

"In essence incoherent and immoral, history had to be taught as such -- or
falsified".

--Henry Adams