ABSTRACT
History is like a boiling cauldron of facts: some bubble to the surface, others stick to the bottom or the sides, while most of them are an amorphous mass shifting somewhere in between. The historian, or, as in this case, the raconteur, consciously or unconsciously selects from the cauldron these facts which may best fit his or her story. Sometimes selectivity is unconscious as a result of traumatic or difficult experiences that the mind prefers to forget or to alter in order to make the recollection more bearable.
