I googled some lines from the Lincoln biographer's passage you quoted and came up with nothing, not even a Google Books link. Which biographer, which book?
The essay is a meditation on the search for truth, on the habit we’ve developed of accepting things unquestioningly. I’ve been waiting a year for someone to catch it! That’s the Easter egg, the hidden meaning of the essay--I fabricated it. Nobody wrote it.
The intriguing aspect of the fabrications is that the last Lincoln-related quote really sucked me in. I really wanted that one to be true! The earlier faux quotes I dismissed easily... but that last one....
I googled some lines from the Lincoln biographer's passage you quoted and came up with nothing, not even a Google Books link. Which biographer, which book?
The essay is a meditation on the search for truth, on the habit we’ve developed of accepting things unquestioningly. I’ve been waiting a year for someone to catch it! That’s the Easter egg, the hidden meaning of the essay--I fabricated it. Nobody wrote it.
The intriguing aspect of the fabrications is that the last Lincoln-related quote really sucked me in. I really wanted that one to be true! The earlier faux quotes I dismissed easily... but that last one....