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The Death of Christian Britain

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And when I look at a history book and think <strong>of</strong> the imaginative effort<br />

it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards and<br />

typeset, I am astonished. Perhaps the event has an unassailable truth.<br />

God saw it. God knows. But I am not God. And so when someone<br />

tells me what they heard or saw, I believe them, and I believe their<br />

friend who also saw, but not in the same way, and I can put these<br />

accounts together and I will not have a seamless wonder but a sandwich<br />

laced with mustard <strong>of</strong> my own.<br />

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not <strong>The</strong><br />

Only Fruit, London, Vintage, 1991, p. 93.

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