A True Story

After a good few months, I’ve finished what is essentially a love letter to my dissertations and, more specifically, the man and the book that they’re based around: Lucian and his True History. I’m not sure what I’ll do with it (other than cut out around 10,000 unnecessary words!), but I’m glad it’s done. Given I owe him two degrees, a novel seems the least he deserves.

Be it understood, then that I am writing about things which I have neither seen nor had to do with nor learned from others – which, in fact, do not exist at all and, in the nature of things, cannot exist. Therefore my readers should on no account believe in them.

– Lucian of Samosata, The True History