" Even in the most authentic documentary there is always a fictional person—the person telling the story. I have never created a more fictional character than the researching “I” in my doctorate, a self that begins in pretended ignorance and then slowly arrives at knowledge, not at all in the fitful, chancy way I myself arrived at it, but step by step, proof by proof, according to the rules. "

― Sven Lindqvist , "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide