ATD: unanswered questions #2

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

          bandwraith:
          But aren't readers invited to "single up all lines" 
          from line one? Something feels not quite right 
          about that perspective.

That's not an invitation, that's a command.

More Wicks:

          "Just so. Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is 
          hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove 
          base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of 
          anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her 
          Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. 
          She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by 
          fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks 
          of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the 
          Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble 
          enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the 
          Curiosity, of Government. 
          M & D, p. 350