except the facts

It has long seemed abundantly clear to me that I was born into a dying, if not already dead civilisation, whose literature was part of the general decomposition; a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny Eng.Lit. vultures, and echoing with the hyena cries of Freudians looking for their Marx and Marxists looking for their Freud.

- Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge

забавно, как он в Чикаго спрашивал прохожих про Гарольда Вильсона, которого только что избрали премьером в Британии, и как никто даже не слышал про это, начиная со слов On the day that Harold Wilson became Prime Minister for the first time и далее про московские процессы 30-х, завершается словами Everything true except the facts.