Fred Vargas on what we know and what we believe

“The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people’s knowledge.”
— Fred Vargas

The French archaeologist Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau is better known to the world as the crime writer Fred Vargas. My father loved her novels and introduced them to us. Reading them all is still on my list of things to do. I must get on that.

This quote comes from her novel This Night’s Foul Work (or at least that’s the title of the English translation). It speaks to storytelling and our imaginations, and I think to the limitations of cold, hard facts.