June 1, 2001
When Plays Touch on History, What Is Truth?
Heisenberg: I shatter the objective universe around you -- and all you can say is that there's an error in the formulation.
Bohr: There is.
Margrethe: Tea, anyone? Cake?
-- from Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn
AEH: But it's all true. Wilde: On the contrary, it's only fact. Truth is quite another thing and is the work of the imagination. -- from The Invention of Love, by Tom Stoppard
Over the past year, two of the most praised
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