If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me! - Iain Banks

Perhaps my certainty is misplaced.

Is all she says true?" Asura whispered.
"Ah," Pieter said, smiling. "Now, that is a question. Let's say it is all based on truth, but the facts are open to different interpretations from the one she supplies.

We really are taking this person’s existence as being a fact, not a myth?
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We are. It turns out that the myth which has been so carefully fostered is that his existence is mythical.