Reply To: An insight into human nature
When Gamache worries he’s slipping into guessing rather than deducing it made me think about all the people believing in conspiracies and misinformation these days. He says he was “in very real danger of turning into a fantasist. Imagining events that never happened. Seeing relationships and connections that might not exist. And wasting time pursuing them. It was one of the great dangers for an investigator. Turning guesses into fact. Interpreting slim evidence to fit a convenient theory. They needed to trust their instincts, but rely on proof.”
So many people these days are turning “beliefs” into facts without knowledge. They really have become fantasists. In its negative extremes it leads to the “flat-earthers” and inquisitions and witch hunts. This is even hinted at in the book when the Dominicans are described as the Hounds of the Lord, the Inquisition. Louise is so good at bringing in small details, and layers into her books that resonate with her bigger themes and insights.
