Facts & Narrative.

Gilles Coudert, Celebration Park, (extraits de A Journey that Wasn't de Pierre Huyghe), 2010.

In spite of the air of fable which had been so ingeniously thrown around that portion of my statement which appeared in the Messenger (without altering or distorting a single fact), the public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable, and several letters were sent to Mr. P.'s address distinctly expressing a conviction to the contrary. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity, and that I had consequently little to fear on the score of popular incredulity. 

Edgar Allen Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Oxford University Press, 1838 (1994), p.3.