Re: off topic: query to editors

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from Brucefelk@xxxxxxxx Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:33:41 EST

> I said, Felknor said, the secretary said?

You might take a page from another historian-participant who was
extravagantly honored by his club, until he fell out of favor:

"This work will not rely in any degree upon personal recollections.
The circumstance that the author was a participant in the events
does not free him from the obligation to base his exposition upon
historically verified documents. The author speaks of himself, in
so far as that is demanded by the course of events, in the third
person. And that is not a mere literary form: the subjective tone,
inevitable in autobiographies or memoirs, is not permissible in a
work of history."

Leon Trotsky, "The History of the Russian Revolution" (trans. Max
Eastman 1932).

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