Warlock: Prefatory Note

[Scott Badger]

Currently reading Apaches, third in the Warlock trilogy, which opens with a
complementary quote from The Education of Henry Adams:

"The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty;
for, if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts."

Small world......

Scott

>
>     This book is a novel. The town of Warlock and the territory
>     in which it is located are fabrications. But any relation of
>     characters to real persons, living or dead, is not always
>     coincidental, for many are composites of figures who live
>     still on a frontier between history and legend.
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>     The fabric of the story, too, is made up of actual events
>     interwoven with invented ones; by combining what did happen
>     with what might have happened, I have tried to show what
>     should have happened. Devotees of Western legend may consequently
>     complain that I have used familiar elements to construct a
>     fanciful design, and that I have rearranged or ignored the
>     accepted facts. So I will reiterate that this work is a novel.
>     The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.
>
>                                                 -- Oakley Hall
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