It looks delightful. My inner cynic cant help but ponder the title’s meaning… And I suddenly remember something from the sound recording industry: Audio “sweetening”. It seems that audiences have come to expect a certain kind of sound distortion thats more pleasing to the ear. And I think theres something similar going on with every story.
Its not enough for a story to be factually accurate, or even relevant to the time. Its also got to resonate with our cognitive bias. It must interact with our logical fallacies. If the author has an open agenda, she might choose to challenge one or two of these, but it doesnt work if the story runs afoul of too many of these brain glitches.
So in a sense, every author who want money for their tale, needs to do what a prosecuting attorney must do-spin a believable tale for the jury. Which is only tangentially related to the factual history.
