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Biographers soon discover that, more often than not, even apparently
simple and straightforward facts acquire significance only when they
are interpreted as traces of memory that have more than one possible
meaning. Achieving the right combination of empirical (and logical)
rigor and imaginative daring in interpretation is no easy matter.
These cases are designed to illustrate the point, and to initiate
you into the possibilities and the pitfalls of interpretation.
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