What, after all, is belief but knowing something without actually being able to prove it? Millions of people believe in the Invincible Sun. And anything believed by so many must be true; and if you disagree, it can only be because you don’t quite understand the subtleties of the true definition of truth. If it wasn’t true before, my dad used to say, when fifteen respectable householders swore on oath he’d been playing cards with them on the night that some unfortunate was stabbed to death in an alleyway on the other side of town, it’s true now.
