With so many now going to the Internet for information, it is important to remember how often that information can be wrong. For example, I have direct experience of two whoppers.
In an obit for my ex Polly, you learn that we had a daughter, Kate. This is false. On the contrary, it was during my marriage to Polly that I got a vasectomy (on V Day!). When she came out gay, she later connected with a woman who had a daughter, Kate, whom Polly co-parented. The obit writer learned she had a daughter and assumed I was the father, apparently.
As recently posted, a website identifies a rue Charles Deemer in Brussels. How nice to think a street might be named after you! Alas, ends up it's a typo for rue Charles Demeer, according to a Brussels street map. Boo hoo.
The trouble with these falsehoods is that they apparently are there forever, recirculating and growing, and we all pay the consequences in a world where facts have less and less authority. Perfect for the autocrat, of course. Just perfect.
But maybe I'll let that street lie go its own way for a while ha ha.
In an obit for my ex Polly, you learn that we had a daughter, Kate. This is false. On the contrary, it was during my marriage to Polly that I got a vasectomy (on V Day!). When she came out gay, she later connected with a woman who had a daughter, Kate, whom Polly co-parented. The obit writer learned she had a daughter and assumed I was the father, apparently.
As recently posted, a website identifies a rue Charles Deemer in Brussels. How nice to think a street might be named after you! Alas, ends up it's a typo for rue Charles Demeer, according to a Brussels street map. Boo hoo.
The trouble with these falsehoods is that they apparently are there forever, recirculating and growing, and we all pay the consequences in a world where facts have less and less authority. Perfect for the autocrat, of course. Just perfect.
But maybe I'll let that street lie go its own way for a while ha ha.
Perhaps they DID name it after you. It's just that all these years they thought you were Charles Demeer, writer. Best version of the story to me.
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