Note.21 The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

Note.20 The man from Beijing quoted - Henning Mankell

Truth never hurries


There's always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional, is one way or another.

The day we stop searching for the truth, which is never objective but under the best circumstances built on facts, is the day on which our system justice collapses completely.

In the world of fiction that is not only a possibility but the basic prerequisite. But even in a novel the most important details ought to be correctly presented whether they refer to the presence of birds in present-day Beijing or whether or not a judge has a sofa provided by the National Judiciary Administration in his or her office.