Erring due to the vagaries of the sea is not the worst thing
Some err by using bad information.
-Jorge Juan, Compendio De Navegagión Para Guardianmarinas
Arturo Pérez~Reverte’s, The Nautical Chart, A Novel of Adventure.
St Augustine, 354-430 – “Obscuritas or ambiguitas – hinders the hearer from discerning the truth in words”.
To hide something means to leave traces
- Walter Benjamin in John Dale’s “Huckstepp” a dangerous life, Allen & Urwin, 2000.
Whether ’tis nobler in a non, to suffer
The sneers and laughter of the upper ten,
Or to take arms against the aristocracy, And by his clamour fright them? To vote,
Catriona M.M. Macdonald, 26. A Non-Elector’s Soliloquy in Part Two: Poems relating to the Representation of the People Acts, 1867-8, The People’s Voice: Scottish Political Poetry, Song and the Franchise, 1832-1918 Anthology.
Evidence from the Past 