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- Rufus's lies and fabrications weren't fully revealed until long after his own death, so he never had to explain himself.
p. 331.9 *fabrications = things that are made up (not true)
- Griswold went on to publish a posthumous collection that included a slanderous and partially fabricated biography of Poe.
p. 346.5fabricated = made up (not true)
- Today, Griswold's characterization of Poe often endures, even though biographers—such as Arthur Hobson Quinn in his 1941 Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography—have documented the fabrications that Griswold made.
p. 346.9fabrications = things that are made up (not true)
Definitions:
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(1)
(fabricate as in: fabricate a story) make up something false
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(2)
(fabricate as in: fabricate metal parts) to make or manufacture something -- especially by assembling components