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Austin Kelley
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The Fact Checker
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“I ended up talking with a young blonde woman who just started working at the Council on the Environment of New York City. She was on her gap year, she said. I imagined a gap year as a huge break in the space-time continuum. I tried to explain this to her, but it didn’t take.”
― The Fact Checker: A Novel
― The Fact Checker: A Novel
“I was thinking about Sylvia and the things she said about worshiping the Deity, and about the way her body felt, and about the dead canary in Tony Curtis’s story, and about vision therapy and the Fat Albert Girl, and how anyone can live a good life, an honorable life, an organic life, a life that will make things better, both day to day and in general, for oneself and for others. In other words, I was thinking about the things we all think about all the time while we wait for a potential lover or a fact-checking source to call us when they said they would call “in a few days” and six days had passed, and they haven’t called.”
― The Fact Checker: A Novel
― The Fact Checker: A Novel
“I might have let these little things slide—who cares about the size of the rug or the punctuation on Shaq’s stomach?—but I knew from experience that some details, irrelevant in themselves, become more significant when they pile up. Think of it this way: Say your girlfriend doesn’t like your beige rug. Maybe she doesn’t even say that explicitly. Maybe she just calls it the brown rug when you’ve always thought it was beige. Maybe what she really means, you later realize, is that she doesn’t respect you anymore. Of course, the “brown rug” comment in itself doesn’t matter. We don’t, like Sherlock Holmes, look at the carpet and uncover the philanderer. One “telling detail” doesn’t tell us much, but a succession of dozens of details working in concert creates an impression, and impressions are sometimes as powerful as declarations of fact. She lost the earrings you gave her. She lied about her doctor’s appointment. She called your medium-size beige rug a “little brown carpet” or a “shitty little carpet.” Is it a surprise, then, that she’s sleeping with her dissertation advisor? Maybe I’m getting a bit too personal here, but what I’m trying to say is this: When I had the CIA widow measure her rug, I really did want to know if it was a “fifteen-foot brown Afghan carpet with images of Russian tanks and Kalashnikovs,” but I was also putting together a bigger picture so that I could make sure the impressions of the article pointed us in the direction of “reality” or “truth” or whatever you want to call it. Some sort of fairness at least. That’s what a checker does.”
― The Fact Checker: A Novel
― The Fact Checker: A Novel
